• University employee facing charges for medical waste dumping

    University employee facing charges for medical waste dumping

    10/10/2008 05:00

    An employee from a medical university in Hanoi may face criminal charges for the unauthorized dumping of untreated medical waste, said Health Ministry Chief Investigator Tran Quang Trung....

  • Big baby girl born in Central Highlands

    09/10/2008 05:00

    A record weight, seven kilogram baby girl was born by caesarian section Thursday at the provincial Gia Lai General Hospital in the Central Highlands. The girl was the biggest baby ever born at the hospital, head of the maternity ward, Dr. Le...

  • Doctors remove parasitic fetus from baby in north

    09/10/2008 05:00

    Doctors from Hanoi’s Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics have surgically removed a growing fetus from a six-month-old girl, Director Nguyen Thanh Liem said on Wednesday. The infant, from northern Nam Dinh Province, was diagnosed as...

  • Tiny corpse found inside cake

    Tiny corpse found inside cake

    09/10/2008 05:00

    One of the images of the dead mouse allegedly found inside a Highlands Coffee cake A customer lodged a complaint after finding a dead mouse inside a Highlands Coffee cake last weekend, the director of the...

  • Kidney transplant woman gives birth

    08/10/2008 05:00

    A 20-year-old woman who had a kidney transplant at Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital two years ago has given birth to a healthy baby, the hospital said Wednesday. Dr. Tran Ngoc Sinh said the case was rare because, after a kidney...

  • No vacancy

    No vacancy

    08/10/2008 05:00

    Patients wait for examinations at Hanoi’s National Institute of Ophthalmology. Some of best state hospitals in Vietnam are swamped with three patients to a bed as locals simply don’t trust district- and...

  • Health Ministry calls for calm over tainted milk scare

    Health Ministry calls for calm over tainted milk scare

    07/10/2008 05:00

    HCMC authorities seized a large amount of melamine-tainted milk products for destruction Tuesday. The Vietnamese Health Ministry Tuesday called for consumers to continue buying milk, issuing an assurance it had...

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