December 25, 2011
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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December 10, 2011
The Japanese baby formula contaminated by radiation is nearly unavailable in Vietnam, but local agencies are conducting close inspections on remaining products, an official has said. According to Nguyen Cong Khan, chief of the health ministry’s Food Safety Administration, the Japanese brand Meiji Step, designed for children under nine months, is primarily sold in Japan, Hong Kong and [...]
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November 17, 2011
Nguyen Van Khai, who has used a chemical substance to treat hand-foot-mouth disease in the central province of Ninh Thuan. Vietnam health ministry has asked a hospital in Ninh Thuan Province to stop using a treatment for hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) initiated by a physicist until scientific assessments can be made, VnExpress reported Tuesday. The ministry made [...]
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November 14, 2011
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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October 12, 2011
A number of doctors in Vietnam are advertising pharmaceutical products under the guise of medical advice, according to insiders who say the practice is unethical and a violation of government regulations.  Most popular recently is a commercial about a headache drug produced by the UK-based GlaxoSmithKline on Vietnam Television channels.  The product is also seen [...]
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October 11, 2011
Higher hospital fees could prevent the poor from getting treatment and many question if increased fees will improve services Patients wait to pay hospital fees at Ho Chi Minh City’s Nguyen Trai Hospital. The Health Ministry is evaluating increasing hospital fees as they said current fees are too low to maintain services. Holding a [...]
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September 23, 2011
Deputy health minister Cao Minh Quang Vietnam’s health ministry will look into recent accusations against a deputy minister, Saigon Giai Phong quoted the health minister as saying Sunday. Deputy Minister Cao Minh Quang is now facing accusations that he had made false statement of his qualifications and age, and abused power to ask the local [...]
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September 18, 2011
Deputy health minister Cao Minh Quang Vietnam’s deputy health minister Wednesday denied accusations that he abused power to force a pharmaceutical company to lend him VND1 billion (US$48,000). Cao Minh Quang, deputy minister of the Ministry of Health, made the denial in an interview with the Tuoi Tre newspaper after several news sources reported that [...]
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September 18, 2011
Rash on the hands is among the symptoms of the hand, foot and mouth disease that has assumed epidemic proportions in Vietnam this year. The World Health Organization and the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are working with Vietnam’s health ministry to study the abnormal increases of infections and fatalities of hand, foot and [...]
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September 4, 2011
Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) continues to claim lives in Vietnam in an outbreak that has refused to relent after the Health Ministry declined to officially declare an epidemic on August 20. Nguyen Van Binh, director of the ministry’s Health Preventive Department, said the contagious disease has claimed 88 lives and had sickened [...]
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