• Mislabeled vaccine instructions not serious: US manufacturer

    18/03/2009 05:00

    A Merck Sharp & Dohme Asia representative said the misprinting of erroneous instructions on the firm’s vaccines imported to Vietnam was not a serious incident. The US-owned pharmaceutical company defended itself during a meeting with the...

  • Vietnam has lost more than 41,000 to AIDS

    Vietnam has lost more than 41,000 to AIDS

    17/03/2009 05:00

    More than 41,400 people have died of AIDS in Vietnam since the country recorded its first HIV case in 1990, the Vietnam HIV/AIDS Prevention Center has reported. More than 29,100 were...

  • Mistake found in US vaccine instructions

    17/03/2009 05:00

    A US-owned pharmaceutical company has labeled a batch of measles, mumps and Rubella vaccine with incorrect instructions for use, said the Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV). The labeling on the MMRII vaccine wrongly says the drug is to be...

  • Magic hands take the pain away

    Magic hands take the pain away

    17/03/2009 05:00

    Massage therapist Mishka Kohli Cira eases a youngster’s pain in the children’s cancer ward of the Vietnam National Hospital in Hanoi She is an American Indian woman who speaks a different language from...

  • Chicken pox spreads in central province

    16/03/2009 05:00

    Chicken pox has infected 23 children at a kindergarten in Tam Vinh Commune in central Quang Nam Province’s Phu Ninh District, the provincial Preventative Healthcare Center said Monday. Many parents in the commune are now keeping their...

  • More bottled drinking water found with bacteria

    More bottled drinking water found with bacteria

    16/03/2009 05:00

    Three more samples of bottled drinking water have failed health tests, the Ho Chi Minh City Health Department’s inspection bureau said Monday. Aquaphar five-liter bottles produced...

  • Probe into faked studies rocks medical community

    15/03/2009 05:00

    A trail-blazing anesthesiologist, whose research shaped pain-relief for millions around the world, has been fabricating data for more than a decade, a hospital where he once practiced claimed Saturday. Massachusetts-based doctor Scott Reuben is...

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