Health

US provides HIV/AIDS prevention funding
07/10/2008 05:00
The US Embassy in Vietnam Tuesday announced financial aid of almost US$29 million for projects to fight HIV/AIDS in Vietnam. The first grant of more than $15 million will be allotted...
Woman with rare virus doing better
07/10/2008 05:00
Doctors check up on N.A. on Monday A Ho Chi Minh City woman afflicted with a virus transmitted by rodents is out of critical condition, doctors said. N.A., a 25-year-old woman who...
Love and support, 20 years after historic surgery
06/10/2008 05:00
Duc (L), his wife Tuyen and Japanese Professor Fujimoto Bunro. The kindness of strangers has helped bring a happy life to an Agent Orange victim who underwent Vietnam’s first conjoined twins separation...
Hush up test results at your peril, dairy firms told
06/10/2008 05:00
A lady selecting milk at the Co-op Mart Supermarket in District 1. The health ministry has warned companies they could lose their business license and face stringent action. Several dairy...
Work to start on modern medical zone in HCMC
05/10/2008 05:00
A Vietnamese-Singaporean joint venture will start work in Ho Chi Minh City this Thursday on what it says will be one of the most technologically advanced medical zones in Southeast Asia. The 37-hectare zone, located in Binh Tan District,...
Officials call for more frequent milk tests
05/10/2008 05:00
Milk distributors in the capital city should have their products tested regularly, the Health Ministry said Sunday. During a visit to the city’s Big C Thang Long supermarket,...
Another MSG-maker found polluting Vietnam river
03/10/2008 05:00
South Korean monosodium glutamate maker Miwon Vietnam has been dumping untreated wastewater into the Red River that runs through the capital city, police said Friday. “We have...