• Better local care offers answer to crowded hospitals

    Better local care offers answer to crowded hospitals

    08/12/2010 05:00

    Improving the quality of health services at the grassroots level is the most effective method of preventing overcrowding at central hospitals and improving people’s lives in poorer areas. A doctor examines...

  • New avian flu cases reported nationwide

    New avian flu cases reported nationwide

    08/12/2010 05:00

    Bird flu has infected flocks in southern Ca Mau and northern Nam Dinh and central Nghe An provinces. “We face a high risk of a human epidemic although no new infections of A/H5N1 has been reported since...

  • Traditional practitioners now avoid bear bile, survey finds 

    06/12/2010 05:00

    Bile bear extracted from the gall bladder of a bear at a farm in northern Vietnam. A recent survey conducted by a non-governmental organization found that a majority of traditional medicine practitioners in Vietnam oppose bear bile...

  • HCMC marks progress in fighting HIV/AIDS 

    06/12/2010 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City has done well in containing the HIV/AIDS epidemic over the last several years given that the number of new HIV infections is falling and lives of people infected with the virus are being prolonged,...

  • Fight that flatulence! 

    06/12/2010 05:00

    Rau mồng tơi sold at a supermarket in Ho Chi Minh City. Eating vegetables like rau khoai lang (sweet potato leaves), Rau mồng tơi (basella alba) and rau muống (water morning glory) can help prevent flatulence....

  • Electronic cigarettes pose health risks: study

    Electronic cigarettes pose health risks: study

    04/12/2010 05:00

    Electronic cigarettes, which are increasingly used worldwide, are unsafe and pose health risks, a new study suggests. To determine the health effects of e-cigarettes, researchers at the University of California (UC),...

  • Sale of stockpiled medicine to help ensure supply, low prices

    Sale of stockpiled medicine to help ensure supply, low prices

    03/12/2010 05:00

    The health ministry plans to sell stockpiled medicine reserves as one of the measures to manage drug prices and ensure sufficient supplies for health treatment, according to deputy minister Cao Minh Quang. A...

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