• WHO alerts Vietnam media to false toxic fruit reports

    20/11/2008 05:00

    The World Heath Organization (WHO) has requested that media stop using the information stating “WHO … has warned 24.5 percent of the imported fruit in Vietnam’s markets have toxic preservative chemicals” in an alert. Recent media...

  • Tainted crackers to be sent back to Malaysia

    19/11/2008 05:00

    A Ho Chi Minh City-based company has been ordered to return several shipments of crackers found to be contaminated with melamine, the industrial chemical at the center of China’s cooking safety scare. The Ministry of Health instructed...

  • FV hospital opens laser eye center

    FV hospital opens laser eye center

    18/11/2008 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City’s Franco-Vietnamese Hospital opened a laser eye center Tuesday. FV Hospital General Director Dr. Jean-Marcel Guillon said the US$500,000 eye center would offer...

  • PM signs plan to boost food safety

    18/11/2008 05:00

    Vietnam has come up with a national action plan to accelerate implementation of its commitments to the World Trade Organization’s Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Agreement (SPS). Under the plan signed by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung...

  • Liver transplant for Vietnam’s youngest receiver successful

    17/11/2008 05:00

    A group of Vietnamese and Belgian doctors have successfully performed a liver transplant on a 10-month-old baby, the youngest beneficiary ever in Vietnam, said a doctor of the operation team Monday. The donor was the mother, Le Thi Van Anh,...

  • Overcrowded hospitals leave patients out in the cold

    Overcrowded hospitals leave patients out in the cold

    17/11/2008 05:00

    Children and their parents wait in the corridors for a room at Ho Chi Minh City’s Children Hospital No.1 Patients have died waiting for a doctor as some hospitals are filled with 10 times more patients than...

  • Ministries unite to develop pharmaceutical industry

    14/11/2008 05:00

    The ministries of Health and Industry and Trade have agreed to work together to develop the pharmaceutical chemical industry and to stabilize the domestic market. Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the ministries, they will...

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