8/11/2017 3:31:25 PM
The Vietnam Medical Association and Cancer Patients Assistance Fund “For a Brighter Future” and the Cancer Research Institute put up 50 bookshelves in Hanoi-based K Hospital on August 9.
The over-prescription of antibiotics caused a common gastrointestinal bacteria to develop antibiotic resistance, experts said at a conference on digestion held by Bach Mai Hospital and the Japanese Nagoya University in Hanoi last Saturday.
Heart disease and tobacco ranked with conflict and violence among the world's biggest killers in 2016, while poor diets and mental disorders caused people the greatest ill health, a large international study has found.
Vietnam’s Poison Control Centre at Bach Mai Hospital has issued a warning about paracetamol poisoning.
Doctors at Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Dan Hospital have used a robot for the first time in the country for lung cancer surgery, removing suspicious nodules through a small incision instead of a large one and without using mechanical rib spreaders, unlike in the past.
Swollen limbs, a sore throat, headaches, heavy legs, dehydration, dizziness and exploding ear drums. The symptoms of flying are enough to make you want to stay at home.
Ho Chi Minh City health centres that provide treatment to patients with HIV/AIDS should merge by the end of the year with district-level hospitals if the centres are unable to expand services to upgrade into general health clinics, which offer various kinds of treatment to all patients, a local official has said.
As Southeast Asia struggles with the rise of modern illnesses that have blighted Western societies such as heart disease and diabetes, a combination of government appeals and changing lifestyle choices suggests a growing awareness of the causes of such conditions.
Ho Chi Minh City has recorded 13,763 cases of dengue fever since the beginning of this year, an increase of 27 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the municipal Department of Health.
People who enjoy one beer or glass of wine several days a week may be less likely to develop diabetes than drinkers who tend to have all their cocktails on a Saturday night, a Danish study suggests.
The number of dengue patients in the capital city continues to decline, but preventive efforts must continue, said Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung of the Hanoi People’s Committee.
Parents of autistic children in Ho Chi Minh City now have another option to save their children from autism: traditional medicine.
The number of dengue fever cases dropped last week but is still high, said Tran Dac Phu, Director of the Preventive Medicine Department under the Health Department at a meeting on August 31st.
Doctors of the HMC City-based Children’s Hospital 2 on Tuesday announced that they've successfully performed a surgery to separate two baby girls who were born sharing the terminus of their spines.
Up to 1,468 out of 2,112 dengue fever hotbeds have been put under control in the capital city of Hanoi.
Close skin-to-skin contact between parents and their baby offers countless benefits for everyone.
More than 1,200 health care managers will need new jobs when provincial centres for preventive health, HIV/AIDS, malaria and others are merged into one general Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in each province, as required by the Ministry of Health (MoH) by 2021.
