Health

Patent fraud
13/11/2009 05:00
This photo, taken on November 11, shows the front of An Khang Medical Practice in Ho Chi Minh Cityâ Dodgy practitioners of traditional medicine are preying on the vulnerable with outrageous prices and...
Schools, classrooms provide poor eye care: conference
12/11/2009 05:00
Around 2.8 million students in Vietnam have refraction problems and improper lighting at schools is a major cause, experts said at a Hanoi conference Wednesday. Surveys by the National...
Vietnam metro finds lead, banned sweetener in dried fruit
12/11/2009 05:00
Dried fruit sold in Binh Tay Market, Ho Chi Minh City, with no information about the origin, or production or expiry dates. Health authorities in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday said they have found dried fruits...
MotoMedics just in time
12/11/2009 05:00
An ambulance is stuck in a traffic gridlock in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Motorbike ambulances could provide quicker emergency services. Bad traffic kills in more ways than one. Of...
Measles vaccines now 100 percent local in Vietnam
12/11/2009 05:00
All measles vaccines in Vietnam are now made locally, a deputy health minister said Friday. After four years carrying out vaccine production improvement project, medicine production...
Doctor says Hanoi tries to hide dengue fever deaths
11/11/2009 05:00
Dengue fever patients at the Vietnam National Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases. The Hanoi Health Department concealed five dengue fever deaths this year, hospital records reveal....
Two die of swine flu, dengue fever combination
11/11/2009 05:00
Two patients infected with both influenza A (H1N1) virus and dengue fever have died in Hanoi, Nguyen Hong Ha, deputy head of the National Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, said on Wednesday....