• Nearly 470 workers hospitalized with food poisoning 

    09/01/2011 05:00

    Nearly 470 workers were hospitalized Thursday with cooking poisoning symptoms in one of Ho Chi Minh City’s suburban districts, local health agencies.   The workers, employees of the...

  • Man claims to treat illness by whistling

    07/01/2011 05:00

    Doan Van Duoc (better known as Ut Duoc), 50, started his treatment for a breast cancer patient by sitting behind her, grabbing a piece of her back skin and cutting it with a razor. Then he took out a stick covered with alcohol-soaked cotton, lighted...

  • Does lunch in front of a computer make us eat more? 

    07/01/2011 05:00

    Eating while watching TV or playing on your computer might seem like a fun and efficient way to both feast your eyes and fill your stomach. Many of us eat lunch parked in front of a computer, but that habit might be boosting our...

  • 8 pct of Vietnamese population suffers from infertility 

    07/01/2011 05:00

    Eight percent of Vietnamese are battling infertility, Vietnamnet quoted Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien as saying Monday.   At a recent conference on shortcomings in infertility treatment,...

  • Foot-and-mouth disease spreads

    Foot-and-mouth disease spreads

    06/01/2011 05:00

    Fifteen provinces reported a resumption in foot-and-mouth cases yesterday, Jan 5, only six months after they announced having the disease under control, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Department of Animal Health has said....

  • Foot-and-mouth disease hits 15 Vietnam provinces 

    05/01/2011 05:00

    A health worker sterilizes a buffalo in Bac Kan Province. The foot-and-mouth disease has stricken 15 provinces in Vietnam so far. As of Tuesday, the foot-and-mouth epidemic has stricken 15 northern and central provinces of Vietnam,...

  • Ministry orders hot pot seasonings of dubious origins destroyed 

    05/01/2011 05:00

    The Health Ministry on Thursday (December 23) ordered that all packets of hot pot seasoning without clear origin and those without Vietnamese language labels are revoked and destroyed.   Following...

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