December 23, 2011
Alexandra Blachere, who heads an association of women with faulty breast implants, displays silicone gel breast implants during an interview in Paris December 20, 2011. Fears over the safety of silicone breast implants made by a now defunct French firm spread to Australia, South America and across Europe on Thursday as French officials prepared to [...]
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December 12, 2011
There are lessons to be learned from America’s complex relationship with Vietnam. Should we perceive the continued involvement of Americans with Vietnam years after the unpopular war as a massive collective guilty conscience or simply as a fascination with the culture, or perhaps both? Any way we look at the situation, American interests are [...]
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November 26, 2011
Most people in Vietnam are reluctant to have a blood test for Hepatitis C, as they underestimate the harm of the disease. The number of Hepatitis C patients in Vietnam is increasing, and around half a million people are estimated to develop cirrhosis and liver cancer this year, experts said at a recent seminar. Â [...]
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November 21, 2011
Emergency rooms in HCMC hospitals are witnessing a massive increase in the number of people wounded in intoxicated brawls Patients being treated at the emergency ward of Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital. Doctors say there has been an alarming increase in cases of people wounded in fights being admitted to the hospitals. [...]
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November 19, 2011
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a decision to establish a national center in charge of coordinating the donation and transplants of tissues and human organs, the Vietnam News Agency reported. The center, to be under the authority of the Health Ministry, will be based in Hanoi. The center will be charged with receiving information [...]
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November 16, 2011
Doctors in Hanoi have successfully replaced a patient’s heart valve with his own pulmonary valve to treat his heart valve failing, instead of using an artificial valve as usual, VnExpress reported Saturday. According to the newswire, Vietnamese doctors have applied the technique, considered a difficult one, since 2003, but didn’t announce it until recently. [...]
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November 12, 2011
As many as 65 percent of around 4.5 million diabetes patients in Vietnam are unaware they have the chronic disease, the Vietnam Nutrition Association (Vinutas) said at a recent workshop. Vinutas said that those who do not detect the disease early for proper treatment can suffer dangerous complications, including kidney failure, high blood pressure, [...]
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October 30, 2011
A man and his three-year-old daughter who is being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease in the southern province of Dong Nai. Since early this month five major hospitals in Hanoi have caused quite a stir with a campaign asking their health workers to refrain from receiving money offered by patients or their families [...]
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October 30, 2011
Child patients at HCMC Children’s Hospital 1 being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease. Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in Vietnam is still under control, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said at a press conference Tuesday (October 25), despite the rising number of new HFMD cases. The disease has killed 137 people, [...]
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October 16, 2011
The medical tourism market in South Korea is expected to grow around 30 percent during 2010-2012, according to a study from RNCOS, a global market research and information analysis company A robotic operation performed at the Wonkwang University Hospital on September 29, 2011 Clean, modern facilities, and a warm welcome greet patients at several [...]
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