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France vows probe into breast implant failures 

January 3, 2012
France vows probe into breast implant failures 

France’s health ministry has said there is no cancer risk from breast implants made by local firm PIP but recommended to the 30,000 women with implants to have them removed after eight cases of cancer. France vowed on Tuesday to investigate failures to detect faults with the French-made breast implants at the centre of a [...]

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France advises 30,000 to have breast implants removed 

December 25, 2011
France advises 30,000 to have breast implants removed 

France’s health ministry has said there is no cancer risk from breast implants made by local firm PIP but recommended to the 30,000 women with implants to have them removed after eight cases of cancer. France’s health ministry on Friday advised 30,000 women with breast implants made by French firm PIP to have them removed [...]

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Vietnam urged to improve midwifery services 

November 14, 2011
Vietnam urged to improve midwifery services 

  Up to 1,000 women die every day as a result of pregnancy-related complications globally, and 5,500 newborns die in the first week of life because of a lack of adequate medical care A midwife examines a pregnant woman in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan. The United Nations has called on Vietnam to invest [...]

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Ovarian cancer starts elsewhere, study shows 

April 23, 2011
Ovarian cancer starts elsewhere, study shows 

  US researchers have recreated the process by which ovarian cancer forms in the lab, providing solid evidence that the tumors start in the fallopian tubes, not the ovaries. The finding could provide clues on how to attack ovarian cancer, which often causes no early symptoms and by the time it is found has spread [...]

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Doctors push for cervical cancer tests

October 30, 2009
Doctors push for cervical cancer tests

LookAtVietnam – Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of female cancer deaths in Viet Nam, but it could be caught early and prevented with an easy test. VIA is not yet available in Viet Nam, but the World Health Organisation (WHO) supported the simple and cheap test to detect the human papilloma virus (HPV) [...]

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Cancer tops list of diseases contracted in Vietnam

July 9, 2009
Cancer tops list of diseases contracted in Vietnam

Rapid industrial development has been blamed as one reason for the recent surge of cancer cases in developing countries. Cancer now tops the list of diseases contracted each year in Vietnam, while the country is ill equipped to handle the increasing caseload, health officials have said. It is expected that around 200,000 people in Vietnam [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...