• Prevention key for Vietnam’s food safety: officials

    Prevention key for Vietnam’s food safety: officials

    26/11/2008 05:00

    A vendor sells fruit at a HCMC market. More consumers are raising questions about the safety of cooking they buy. Vietnam should focus on preventative measures to ensure food safety around the country instead...

  • Out-of-season rise in dengue fever cases worries HCMC

    Out-of-season rise in dengue fever cases worries HCMC

    26/11/2008 05:00

    Dengue fever patients have overloaded the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases recently, with between 30 and 50 adult patients admitted every day Ho Chi Minh City doctors have reported an alarming...

  • Shadowy fruit additives to be confiscated, tested

    Shadowy fruit additives to be confiscated, tested

    25/11/2008 05:00

    A Ho Chi Minh City fruit stand. Some fruit providers admit they spray their fruits with unregistered chemicals to make the produce ripen quicker and last longer. Health authorities are testing samples of...

  • Needy ‘family treasure’ may lose his sight

    Needy ‘family treasure’ may lose his sight

    25/11/2008 05:00

    A three-year-old child from a poor family in central Quang Nam Province is facing total blindness because his family cannot afford to pay to take him abroad to treat his eye cancer....

  • Dengue fever hits nearly 1,700 in Hanoi

    Dengue fever hits nearly 1,700 in Hanoi

    24/11/2008 05:00

    Nearly 1,700 Hanoi hospital patients have had dengue fever this year, the city’s Health Department has said. The department said 89 percent of the patients were adults. But...

  • Vietnam holds nutrition week

    23/11/2008 05:00

    This week is the Nutrition Advisory Week for Public Health in the three cities of Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City until next Saturday. The event, organized by the National Nutrition Institute and sponsored by Dutch Lady Vietnam, kicked...

  • Doctors re-identify intersex child’s gender

    20/11/2008 05:00

    Doctors from a southern pediatrics hospital are conducting both testicular and ovarian tests on a six-year-old intersex child to identify his “real” sex, a doctor said on Wednesday. V.B.N., from the Mekong Delta’s Soc Trang Province,...

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