• Soy sauce suspect as 38 hospitalized with food poisoning  

    02/01/2011 05:00

    A sandwich counter in HCMC. Thirty-eight people, including 15 children in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang, were hospitalized with cooking poisoning symptoms after eating bread on Sunday.   Son Thanh Dien, who...

  • Breast-fed boys do better at school: study 

    02/01/2011 05:00

    A baby bottle-fed in Ho Chi Minh City. Infants breast-fed for six months or longer, especially boys, perform better academically than bottle-fed children at school, a study has found. A new study has found that infants breast-fed...

  • A detox plan for dummies 

    01/01/2011 05:00

    Fibrous vegetables like spinach, broccoli, asparagus, cauliflower, cabbage, and lettuce can be used as the staple cooking during the first two days of a simple week-long detox plan advised by local herbalist Hoang Anh Tuan. Our...

  • Have a good night with red jujube 

    31/12/2010 05:00

    Red jujube has great nutritional and medicinal qualities that help prevent cough, fortify the heart, liver, stomach, lungs and kidneys. Red jujube is considered a gift from the gods in Oriental medicine. All fruits are divine...

  • New eye surgery fails the poor

    New eye surgery fails the poor

    20/12/2010 05:00

    Phacoemulsification surgical technology has failed to eradicate cataract-caused blindness in Viet Nam because not enough people have access to it. An opthalmologist uses ultrasound to treat cataracts at Ha Noi Eyes...

  • Hospital fees impoverish 3.7 pct of Vietnamese families: study 

    19/12/2010 05:00

    Patients wait to pay their dues at the Gia Dinh People Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Up to 3.7 percent of families in Vietnam were impoverished by hospital and treatment fees in 2008, a group of researchers reported at the...

  • Sperm in short supply in Vietnam metro 

    19/12/2010 05:00

    Doctors prepare sperms for an in vitro fertilization case at Hung Vuong Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City. Sperm shortage at the city hospitals have made infertile couples more desperate. Infertility is a growing problem among young...

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