• Bird flu tests on people at risk negative, says health official

    Bird flu tests on people at risk negative, says health official

    11/01/2009 05:00

    Tests conducted on people who’d come into contact with the young girl confirmed to have contracted avian flu have proved negative for the H5N1 virus. The head of the National...

  • Thousands of children hospitalized during Hanoi, HCMC cold snaps

    Thousands of children hospitalized during Hanoi, HCMC cold snaps

    23/12/2008 05:00

    Children being admitted to the Children Hospital No. 2 in Ho Chi Minh City. Cold weather is being blamed for thousands of children with diarrhea in Hanoi as well as the spread of colds and flu to thousands more...

  • Medical center to offer saliva DNA testing

    23/12/2008 05:00

    A medical center in Ho Chi Minh City has signed a contract with a French laboratory to provide DNA testing of saliva, a center representative said on Monday. HCMC Medic Medical Center Director Phan Thanh Hai said with a sample of saliva, the...

  • Sponge cakes caused food poisoning: inspectors

    23/12/2008 05:00

    Sponge cakes bought from an outside supplier had caused the cooking poisoning that sent around 400 students of a primary school in Ho Chi Minh City to hospitals on Monday, health inspectors said Tuesday. The sponge cakes were supplied by the...

  • Vietnam gender ratio could result in social disorder: experts

    Vietnam gender ratio could result in social disorder: experts

    22/12/2008 05:00

    Experts are warning of increasing sex-related crimes and general social disorder if the highly unnatural level of gender imbalance in the country is not addressed. They were speaking at...

  • A smile in place

    A smile in place

    22/12/2008 05:00

    For many poor children, corrective facial surgery opens the door to self confidence. “Every time she smiles, I cry, because her mouth then seems to express the end of the pain of...

  • 400 HCMC pupils suffer food poisoning

    22/12/2008 05:00

    About 400 students of a primary school in Ho Chi Minh City had to receive emergency medical treatment Monday for cooking poisoning. The cause of the poisoning has not been confirmed. The affected students of Phuoc Binh primary school in...

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