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 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 2, 2012
Kieu Thi My Dung with tumors on her face. (Photo: VnExpress) A 22-year-old woman who recently grabbed headlines for her facial tumors has been admitted to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital for treatment, Lao Dong (Labor) newspaper reported. Kieu Thi My Dung of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong is at the Cho [...]
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December 22, 2011
Nguyen Thi Anh was arrested after a girl who used to serve at her coffee shop said she was badly treated. A café shop owner in Vietnam’s southern beach town Vung Tau was arrested on Tuesday following accusations that she shaved a female waitress and had her tattooed with ugly animals. The 20-year-old [...]
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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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November 14, 2009
Five-year-old Tran Ngoc Bao Tran is examined by a doctor in Ho Chi Minh City. An American charity organization gives accident victims and children with cleft lips the opportunity for acceptance. She has no nose and her face is covered completely by burns. Her nostrils are two small holes, surrounded by brown, wrinkled skin. She [...]
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August 22, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Thousands of poor Vietnamese children born with cleft lips and palates can grin and speak clearly thanks to dedicated Vietnamese and foreign surgeons. Bui Van Nguyen, 6, from Tay Ninh Province, at My Thien Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City on August 7 after free surgery to fix a cleft palate. LookAtVietnam – [...]
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August 21, 2009
Bui Van Nguyen, 6, from Tay Ninh Province, at My Thien Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City on August 7 after free surgery to fix a cleft palate. Thousands of poor Vietnamese children born with cleft lips and palates can grin and speak clearly thanks to dedicated Vietnamese and foreign surgeons and the sponsorship of [...]
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August 9, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Dzao Tien hill tribe from the northwest mountains of Vietnam knows how to throw a wedding party. In the early hours of the morning, every one from Muong village in Moc Chau district, Son La province, is already up and bustling around. Down every path leading to the village, guests from other [...]
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