Health

Doctors at HCM City’s Cho Ray hospital have operated on a 37-year-old woman from Long An province to take out a 25kg tumour. VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors at HCM City’s Cho Ray hospital have operated on a 37-year-old woman (photo) from Long An province to take out a 25kg tumour. Surgeons remove 19kg tumor from 30kg...

Phu Tho and Dong Thap will start using a new kind of vaccine against five diseases in their expanded vaccination programme this May. VnnNews - Phu Tho province north of Hanoi and Dong Thap province south of HCM City will start using a new kind of vaccine against whooping-cough, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B and meningitis caused by virus...

Hospitalizations of children and old people in the central have skyrocketed with unseasonal hot weather.  Parents and their children troubled by the recent heat wave crowd the waiting rooms at Hue Central Hospital’s pediatric ward on March 1 (Photo: SGGP) VnnNews - Hospitalizations of children and old people in the central have...

The benefits of complementary and alternative medicine in serving public health were highlighted by local experts at a conference held in HCM City on Wednesday. Alternative medicine had also become popular in industrially advanced countries including the US.At the conference held by the UNESCO Centre for Public Health, they said this branch...

Doctors at the Thai An hospital in Vinh City, Nghe An province, on February 23 conducted an operation to take a 15cm leech from the lung of a girl. The patient. The patient is a 19-year-old H’Mong girl from the Tuong Duong district. Around two months ago, she did farm work and drank water from a stream. After two months, she...

It has been a southern tradition for long that a wide variety of vegetables, leaves, buds and flowers are part of everyday meals. Snake-head fish steamed with bon bon The tradition was fostered in the old days by the free availability of many vegetables and flowers that grew wild and uncultivated along village paths, at the edge of rice fields...

No positive cases of A/H1N1, A/H5N1 or acute diarrhoea have been reported across the country over the past three days, the Ministry of Health (MoH) says. VnnNews - No positive cases of A/H1N1, A/H5N1 or acute diarrhoea have been reported across the country over the past three days, the Ministry of Health (MoH) says.The MoH Animal Health Department...

VnnNews – Health officials on Feb. 10 confirmed one more death of A/H1N1 influenza, bringing the total number of fatalities in Vietnam to 58. VnnNews - Health officials on Feb. 10 confirmed one more death of A/H1N1 influenza, bringing the total number of fatalities in Vietnam to 58. The latest victim was a 37-year-old man from the northern...

The Ministry of Health confirmed one more death of the A/H1N1 influenza on February 10, bringing the total number of fatalities in Vietnam to 58. The latest victim was a 37-year-old man from the northern mountain province of Dien Bien, said a representative of the Preventive Medicine and the Environment Department under the Ministry of Health.The...

The Japanese Government has given Viet Nam 461 million Yen in non-refundable aid to help the country improve health care services for mothers and new-borns. The funding, delivered to the Ha Noi-based National Hospital for Obstetrics and Gynaecology, was made following the Note of Exchange on Grant Aid previously inked by Japanese Ambassador...