• Vietnam to send back contaminated milk to China

    Vietnam to send back contaminated milk to China

    23/10/2008 05:00

    Inspectors take imported powder milk samples from Hanoi Milk Joint Stock Company (Hanoimilk) Wednesday More than 393 tons of melamine-contaminated milk powder imported from China will be sent back and 384 tons...

  • Medicine women

    Medicine women

    22/10/2008 05:00

    Two Dao women in Yen Son Village in the northern mountainous district of Ba Vi cut and dry therapeutic herbs to sell in packages that cost US$0.6–1.8 each. It’s a slippery slope for Ethnic Dao medicine...

  • Vietnamese, US cardiologists exchange experience

    22/10/2008 05:00

    Vietnamese and American cardiologists met at a seminar held Wednesday in Ho Chi Minh City to exchange experience and expertise. Among the key speakers were Dr. Anthony Nicholas Demari, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of...

  • Banned drug kills another consumer

    Banned drug kills another consumer

    22/10/2008 05:00

    Nguyen Thi My Hien from HCMC shows the remaining powder sachets of a banned traditional medicine originating from Cambodia that are thought to have killed her brother-in-law recently A Ho Chi Minh City resident...

  • Villagers say children suffer unknown mental illness

    Villagers say children suffer unknown mental illness

    21/10/2008 05:00

    Parents in Ho Do Commune say their children are born normal, but soon show signs of developmental disabilities. Thirty-eight of the small commune’s children are said to be mentally challenged or physically disabled. Some can’t memorize...

  • Polluted water blamed for cancer cluster

    Polluted water blamed for cancer cluster

    21/10/2008 05:00

    Several households in Dak Mar Commune have installed water filters hoping to make their water safe to drink Residents of a hamlet in the central highlands province of Kon Tum say they live in a “cancer...

  • Doctors remove parasitic fetus from girl in southern Vietnam

    Doctors remove parasitic fetus from girl in southern Vietnam

    19/10/2008 05:00

    Doctors successfully removed a parasitic fetus from a seven-year-old girl last Friday, a representative from the Dong Nai Pediatric Hospital said on Saturday. Nguyen Thi Hong Hanh...

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