January 18, 2012
New lease on life – a Vietnamese man with a 198-lb tumor, a woman with tumors all over the body and another with several covering half her face look forward to bright futures Doctor McKay McKinnon (L) visited Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, on January 8, three days after his 82-kilogram tumor was successfully removed [...]
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December 5, 2011
Lumps cover the face of Thach Thi Sa Ly. (Photo: Lao Dong) A 35-year-old woman in a poor, rural village in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang seems threatening to strangers because of her densely covered bubble-like lumps, Lao Dong newspaper reported. Thousands of small tumors are covering Thach Thi Sa Ly’s body, including her [...]
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November 26, 2011
Skin ulcers on a person in central Vietnam. The condition has not been named and its cause is suspected to be plant protection chemicals. Dermatologists suggested that strange skin ulcers affecting many people in central Vietnam is caused by plant protection chemicals.  The conclusion was made by experts at the Vietnam Central Dermatology Hospital after [...]
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November 6, 2011
A doctor examines 27-year-old Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai, who suffers from strange rapid-aging condition. Doctors from Hoan My Hospital in Da Nang have said they will be able treat a 27-year-old woman suffering from a strange condition that makes her look much older than her age. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai of Quang Nam Province’s Hoi [...]
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November 2, 2011
Nguyen Viet Anh with blisters on the skin before the treatment (L) and after 40 days of getting a bone marrow stem cell transplant (R). Vietnam has seen its first successful bone marrow stem cell transplant to cure lethal skin blisters, saving the life of a four- year-old boy, a Hanoi doctor said. Nguyen [...]
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October 26, 2011
Nguyen Thi Phuong (L) has recently grabbed headlines for her strange condition. Her face aged more than 30 years in about 3 years. Vietnamese doctors have sent skin samples of a 26-year-old woman who looks 70 to an American hospital to find out the root cause for her strange condition. Nguyen Thi Phuong from the Mekong Delta province of [...]
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October 7, 2011
Doctors have yet to identify what prompted a rapid-aging process in 23-year-old woman who now looks 70 Nguyen Thi Phuong (L), 26, looks about 50 years her senior due to a strange rapid-aging affliction that began in 2008 Nguyen Thanh Tuyen’s love for his wife never faded as he watched her youthful beauty crumble [...]
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August 28, 2011
An undated file photo of a patient being treated in the emergency room. When his brother was pronounced dead after an hour of treatment in the emergency room, 18-year-old Nguyen Van Dung went berserk and made good on a threat he’d made earlier. He took a knife and stabbed two doctors, one of them to [...]
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June 23, 2011
A famous village in the suburbs of Hanoi, with houses dating back hundreds of years, has decided to turn its back on history, aesthetics and healthy living A man walks past a house under construction in Cu Da Village in the outskirts of Hanoi. Famed for its century old European-style houses, the village has [...]
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May 15, 2011
The parents of drowned autistic boy hope his special education school (one of the few in Vietnam) will remain open in the wake of tragedy A class at the Bim Bim Kindergarten, for autistic children, in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Thanh District Nguyen Dinh Huy Cuong remembers stopping to buy vermicelli soup for [...]
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