A new campaign launched by the Ministry of Health, including two vaccinations against measles for children aged between nine and 18 months, will cover 7.5 million children nationwide from September 24, in an effort to cover at least 95 per cent of the target population. "More than 7,000 cases of measles were reported in 2009, that's why we've launched the campaign," said ...
The Government Inspectorate has accused the Ministry of Health of wasting money when it purchased Tamiflu in 2005 at double the market rate. In a bid to contain an avian flu outbreak between 2003 and 2005, which saw 91 people come down with the lethal disease, the ministry authorised the purchase of 30 million Tamiflu pills, which potentially could treat 3 million patients, ...
Dengue fever is booming in a number of localities after several patients were hospitalised after they began suffering from side-effects.
Many patients suffered from prolonged fever and fatigue, while others were hospitalised for internal bleeding, vomiting blood or brain haemorrhages, said Dr Trinh Thi Ngoc, head of Bach Mai Hospital's Infectious Diseases Faculty in Ha ...
The disease of conjunctivitis, locally called red eye disease, still occurs complicatedly and persists in Hanoi and neighboring provinces, said the Central Eye Hospital on September 3.
In August alone, the hospital received nearly 2,000 patients suffering from the conjunctivitis, doubled over previous months.
Its doctors forecast the number of patients would increase ...
Flu vaccine against influenza H1N1, H3N2, and influenza B is available in preventive health centers in Vietnam, said a medical worker on August 31.
Dr. Nguyen Thi Hong Hanh, vice director of the country's National Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology said the vaccine can prevent influenza strains of H1N1, H3N2, and influenza B as seasonal sicknesses proliferate with ...
The number of brain haemorrhage patients in HCM City hospitals is on the rise and a large number are dying.
"People's failure to control their hypertension is the most popular cause of the disease, which makes blood vessel break and overflow into brain tissue," says Dr Nguyen Anh Tai, Head of the hospital's Neurology Faculty.
Doctors of Ho Chi Minh City’s Children Hospital No.2 have successfully performed the kidney transplantation on an eleven-year-old boy, Nguyen Van G, from the southern province of Binh Phuoc.
Suffering from kidney disease for three years, the boy was treated artificial blood purification since August, 2009.
During the five hours operation with support of experts ...
Japanese scientists have successfully developed a cancer immunotherapy vaccine, reports The Mainichi Daily News. Trials show that the vaccine simultaneously activates immune system cells – killer T cells and helper T cells – to boost immunity, it says.
The vaccine had eliminated cancer in a patient after drugs and radiation had failed. Hokkaido University scientist ...
Viet Nam has made great progress in bio-technology and this can help improve its healthcare system, the Sai Gon Hi-Tech Park has said in a report. The report, by Dr Thai Nguyen, chief scientist at the park's Biotech Division, points out Viet Nam has achieved critical mass required for international standard and multi-disciplinary bio-technology research and development.
Viet Nam has made great progress in bio-technology and this can help improve its healthcare system, the Sai Gon Hi-Tech Park has said in a report. The report, by Dr Thai Nguyen, chief scientist at the park's Biotech Division, points out Viet Nam has achieved critical mass required for international standard and multi-disciplinary bio-technology research and development.
Health experts have issued a warning that a new, antibiotic-resistant superbug may spread to Viet Nam.
"A common feature of bacteria is to spread easily through contact so there is potential that this kind of superbug could spread globally and enter Viet Nam, particularly through medical tourists," said Dr Nguyen Trung Cap, deputy manager of the National Hospital of ...
Viet Nam and Cambodia have agreed to further promote the achievements recorded in healthcare co-operation between the two countries.
The agreement was made yesterday at a meeting between Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting Trieu, who is visiting to Cambodia from August 1 to 6, and Cambodia's ...
The new regulation that makes insurance compulsory insurance for students dictates that they will only pay 70 percent of premiums, with the government subsidizing the remainder.
With the aim of encouraging students to buy insurance, the new law took effect last January and has received public backing. Students only pay the equivalent of 3 percent of the country’s minimum ...
Although the Ministry of Health regulates foodstuffs for children that have labels written in Vietnamese, health agencies neglect to check products for children without Vietnamese labels; most shops in Ho Chi Minh City sell such products that often provide no clear indications of origin and are missing expiration dates.
A shop on Vo Van Tan Street in District 3 displays ...
Domestic and foreign drug manufacturers began to increase prices after a several month hiatus as responsible agencies mulled ways to control the market. các nhà sản xuất thuốc nước ngoài và trong nước đă bắt đầu tăng giá sau một vài tháng gián đoạn là cơ quan chịu trách nhiệm ...
Viet Nam and Cambodia have agreed to further promote the achievements recorded in healthcare co-operation between the two countries.
The agreement was made yesterday at a meeting between Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting Trieu, who is visiting to Cambodia from August 1 to 6, and Cambodia's ...
On 26 July 2010, ICA Biotechnology - Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company (ICA) attended the conference investment direction in the field of pharmaceuticals towards 2020 was held in Hanoi by minister of Health and chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan and Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu. Along with attending this conference, the company has made an exhibition ...
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has called for further investment in Viet Nam's pharmaceutical sector, especially for modern pharmacy methods and for projects capitalising on the potential of local pharmaceutical resources.
Nhan made the call yesterday at an investment orientation conference for the pharmaceutical sector held by the Ministry of Health.
The Ministry of Health will receive a shipment of Tamiflu worth over US$2.3 million from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to fight and prevent the A-H1N1 virus, said the Government Office. The Ministry will be responsible for managing and using the medicine under current regulations.
Despite the Ministry of Health (MOH)’s ban on doctor’s revealing the gender of fetuses to expectant parents, most doctors in private clinics in big cities are more than glad tell parents anyway, as a way to draw more customers to their clinic.
Obstetric private clinics mushroom in streets in Hanoi. Due to pressures of competition, doctors of such hospital ...
