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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January 16, 2012
A patient with fatal brain inflammation in HCMC Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City have warned of the outbreak of a fatal type of encephalitis that has affected five co-workers. The disease was caused by Neisseria, a large genus of commensal bacteria that colonize in the mucosal surfaces of many animals, and quickly kill the [...]
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January 14, 2012
Kieu Thi My Dung, 22, at Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital after a seven-hour operation on January 6. Two Vietnamese women who had their massive tumors removed in high-profile surgeries last week are doing well, the news website of Vietnam Media Corp. quoted local doctors as saying Monday. Dr. Tran Quyet Tien, vice [...]
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January 9, 2012
Nguyen Duy Hai gives a thumbs up sign at the FV hospital in HCMC, where he had an 82-kg tumor removed. Photo courtesy of Tuoi Tre Newspaper. Two days after having a 82-kg tumor removed in a major surgery, the patient could breathe on his own and eat on Saturday, doctors of the FV Hospital [...]
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January 9, 2012
People wearing refractive glasses, especially contact lenses, are always warned by doctors to stay away from fire and heat. Rumors about a Taiwanese man wearing contact lenses being hospitalized with eye trauma after eating hot pot – the steam apparently melted the lenses – has prompted Vietnamese doctors to warn about the poor awareness of [...]
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January 7, 2012
Doctors performing surgery to remove Nguyen Duy Hai's 82-kilogram tumor at Ho Chi Minh City's FV Hospital on Jan 5. A man whose giant tumor was removed in a high-profile operation Thursday remains unconscious after being put under a medically induced coma, doctors at Ho Chi Minh City’s FV Hospital told the press Friday. Nguyen Duy Hai, [...]
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December 19, 2011
Hua Cam Tu, a 37-year-old woman who had both her kidneys removed by doctors without her permission, is being treated at the Can Tho General Hospital. A Mekong Delta hospital said Thursday it would provide free dialysis treatment to a patient whose health is getting worse after doctors removed both two kidneys without her consent, the Nguoi [...]
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December 16, 2011
Lack of exercises is a reason for early libido absence in Vietnam Gender health experts warned about the absence of sexual desire among Vietnamese youths due to an increase in physiological diseases. Doctor Tran Quan Anh, chairman of Vietnam Gender Medicine Association, said at a recent sexual health conference in Ho Chi Minh City [...]
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December 12, 2011
Chromobacterium violaceum that causes bone inflammation as seen through a microscope. A girl in south central Vietnam is infected with a rare bacterium that has damaged parts of her skull. The disease is believed to be fatal. Doctors at the Children’s Hospital No.2 in Ho Chi Minh City said the child, who was not named, [...]
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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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