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US surgeon pulls off incredible feat 

January 18, 2012
US surgeon pulls off incredible feat 

  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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Vietnam women with massive tumors to undergo more surgery 

January 16, 2012
Vietnam women with massive tumors to undergo more surgery 

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 massive tumors removed by a renowned US surgeon early this month will go under the knife again as they are recovering well, a local hospital said Saturday. According to the [...]

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Vietnam women with massive tumors recover after surgeries 

January 14, 2012
Vietnam women with massive tumors recover after surgeries 

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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Man recovers after removal of giant tumor 

January 9, 2012
Man recovers after removal of giant tumor 

  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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Doctors induce medical coma after removing enormous tumor 

January 7, 2012
Doctors induce medical coma after removing enormous tumor 

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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France vows probe into breast implant failures 

January 3, 2012
France vows probe into breast implant failures 

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 vowed on Tuesday to investigate failures to detect faults with the French-made breast implants at the centre of a [...]

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France advises 30,000 to have breast implants removed 

December 25, 2011
France advises 30,000 to have breast implants removed 

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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Illegal bill posters to have their phones cut off

January 25, 2010
Illegal bill posters to have their phones cut off

Businesses that stencil illegal advertisements on walls around the city will have their phone numbers disconnected as of March. Ban said local authorities would collect telephone numbers on bill-poster advertisements and forward them to mobile phone companies for disconnection.He said an inspection team had already been established to collect mobile numbers across the city. To [...]

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Prawn removed from man’s esophagus in southern Vietnam

January 23, 2010

Doctors in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho have removed a six-centimeter long Malaysian prawn from a local man’s bronchial tube. Le Minh Nhut, 21, partially swallowed the freshwater shrimp (Macrobrachium rosenbergii – technically not a prawn) as he was catching shrimp on Saturday.According to Nhut’s family, he went to catch shrimp without a [...]

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Wife detained for trying to kill mistress’s baby

November 12, 2009
Wife detained for trying to kill mistress’s baby

Nhat Minh is being treated at the Thai Nguyen General Hospital after a needle was removed from his head. Nhat Minh, born out of wedlock in late September, is being treated at the Thai Nguyen General Hospital, after a needle was removed from his head. Wife detained for trying to kill mistress’s babyThai Nguyen police [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...