• Prescription puzzles try patients’ patience

    Prescription puzzles try patients’ patience

    03/11/2008 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City Health Department inspectors inspect a local clinic that sells unlabeled medicine. Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City are ripping off their patients by overcharging for medicines they are not...

  • Yogurt poisoned Delta children with bacteria: official

    03/11/2008 05:00

    The yogurt that sent 133 Mekong Delta children to the hospital with severe cooking poisoning last month was tainted with harmful bacteria, a local health official has reported. Tran Thanh Thao, vice director of the Tien Giang Province...

  • No melamine found in Delta fish exports

    No melamine found in Delta fish exports

    01/11/2008 05:00

    No melamine was found in Mekong Delta fish that had eaten melamine-contaminated fish cooking earlier this year, said an official from Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP)....

  • HCMC canal contamination worsens

    30/10/2008 05:00

    Pollution in Tan Hoa-Lo Gom Canal – running through three highly populated districts of Ho Chi Minh City – is becoming worse despite clean-up efforts by local authorities, a city official said Wednesday. Nguyen Minh Hoang, head of the...

  • Central commune blames garbage dumps for cancer

    30/10/2008 05:00

    Residents of a commune in central Binh Dinh Province have blamed pollution from their local garbage dump for the high incidence of cancer among residents. Phu Son rubbish dump, which was established ten years ago in Nhon Hoa Commune, has...

  • Officials roll up sleeves to test eggs nationwide

    Officials roll up sleeves to test eggs nationwide

    29/10/2008 05:00

    Eggs are processed and packaged at HCMC’s Ba Huan Company. Health agencies and businesses have been mobilized to test eggs for melamine after the chemical was detected last Saturday in eggs imported from China...

  • Controversial driving license plan dropped

    Controversial driving license plan dropped

    29/10/2008 05:00

    The Ministry of Health Wednesday proposed the government abandon plans to introduce height and weight restrictions on driving licenses. The ministry also called on the Ministry of...

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