• HCMC finds toxic stuff in imported fabric

    HCMC finds toxic stuff in imported fabric

    31/01/2010 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City’s quality testing center has found excessive formaldehyde and aromatic amines in six batches of imported fabric this year, most of it from China. The Quality...

  • Cool as cucumber

    Cool as cucumber

    30/01/2010 05:00

    Modern nutrition is based on knowing the chemical composition of cooking s, and advice regarding a healthy diet is given based on the protein, carbohydrates, fat and other content in different foods....

  • Two babies go into shock after vaccination in Ben Tre

    28/01/2010 05:00

    Doctors in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre are treating two babies who suffered shock after being given three different vaccines on Monday, the director of a local hospital said. The babies, two and half months and three months old...

  • Vietnam’s Pasteur Institute develops H1N1 testing toolkit

    Vietnam’s Pasteur Institute develops H1N1 testing toolkit

    28/01/2010 05:00

    The Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute has successfully produced a toolkit set to test for the influenza A (H1N1) virus, an official from the Ministry of Science and Technology said at a meeting Wednesday....

  • Bird flu returns to northern Vietnam

    Bird flu returns to northern Vietnam

    28/01/2010 05:00

    Two communes in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien reported cases of bird flu on Wednesday. Around 1,500 fowls have been disposed of in two communes of Dien Bien District...

  • New insurance plans bankrupt poor patients

    New insurance plans bankrupt poor patients

    23/01/2010 05:00

    Health insurance holders at An Binh Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5 on Thursday. Policyholders no longer enjoy full payment and pay up to 20 percent instead. Tran Van...

  • Prawn removed from man’s esophagus in southern Vietnam

    22/01/2010 05:00

    Doctors in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho have removed a six-centimeter long Malaysian prawn from a local man’s bronchial tube. Le Minh Nhut, 21, partially swallowed the freshwater shrimp ( Macrobrachium rosenbergii – technically...

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