Health

HCMC tapioca balls also tainted
01/09/2009 05:00
Health officials in Ho Chi Minh City have found tapioca balls containing bleach and microorganisms in a three-week inspection that ended Monday. Beginning August 11, the HCMC Health...
Vietnam to import alternative antiviral drug for swine flu
01/09/2009 05:00
Vietnam will import a second antiviral medicine, Zanamivir, for treating swine flu in people whose bodies have become resistant to Tamiflu, Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quang Huan said....
Vietnam records 157 more swine flu cases
30/08/2009 05:00
A H1N1 patient under treatment at the Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital The Health Ministry Saturday confirmed 157 more influenza A (H1N1) cases, mostly in the south, raising the countryâs total to 2,569....
Vietnam awaits swine flu vaccine
30/08/2009 05:00
Vietnam needs some five million doses of H1N1 influenza A vaccine for people at high risk of infection, according to National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology director Nguyen Tran Hien....
Daily aspirin may do more harm than good: study
30/08/2009 05:00
A Bayer employee holding some Cardio-Aspirin tablets at the company’s plant in Bitterfeld, eastern Germany. Healthy people taking a daily dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks may be doing themselves more...
Swine flu spreading at ‘unbelievable’ rate: WHO
29/08/2009 05:00
People wear protective masks in New Delhi on August 18. Swine flu spreads four times faster than other viruses and 40 percent of the fatalities are young adults in good health, the world’s top health official...
Japanese woman detected with swine flu in Can Tho
28/08/2009 05:00
A Japanese woman in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has tested positive for the H1N1 influenza A virus, a medical officer said on Friday night. The cityâs first swine flu patient is in the isolation ward of Can Tho Tuberculosis and Lung...