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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June 23, 2011
Vietnam’s Health Ministry on Wednesday asked doctors to use caution in prescribing the antifungal tablets Nizoral, after French health authorities banned the sale of the drug. On June 8, the French Agency for the Safety of Medical Products AFSSAPS banned the sale of Nizoral tablets, which are manufactured by the pharmaceutical group Janssen-Cilag, a unit of [...]
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May 20, 2011
Vietnam’s small-cap bourse, the Hanoi Stock Exchange, slid to an all-time low on Friday as liquidity and confidence dwindle, marking another milestone in the country’s fall from favor for foreign and domestic investors alike. The six-year-old Hanoi market ended the week off about 5 percent at 76.98 points after dipping as low as 76.81 [...]
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April 6, 2011
An old pharmacy featuring the northern style, was relocated to the Fito Museum's second floor. It has medicinal chests, small pillows on the table where patients put their arms for the doctor to feel their pulse, and a medicinal scale. Ngoc Ha looks healthy and youthful at 50. The woman with her hair dyed blonde [...]
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October 6, 2009
In terms of stemming the H1N1 virus pandemic, early vaccination will save more lives and costs less, a new study suggests. Vaccinating 40 percent of the people in October or 35 percent in November saves lives, cuts medical costs and shortens the pandemic, compared with later vaccination, according to the study appearing in the Oct. [...]
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August 11, 2009
Boxes of Tamiflu. Children with seasonal flu should not be given antivirals such as Tamiflu because harmful side effects outweigh relatively meager benefits, according to a study by British researchers The Ho Chi Minh City health authority on Monday asked people not to use Tamiflu without a doctorâs prescription despite its widespread availability at some [...]
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April 7, 2009
A doctor at a clinic in Ha Nam Province checks a recovering addict patient’s health.VietNamNet Bridge – Methadone treatment has significantly helped addicts give up heroin and improve their constitution as well as behaviour, according to the Ministry of Health.During a six-month pilot project involving 870 addicts in HCM City and the northern port city [...]
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March 31, 2009
A pharmacy in New Hampshire, United States. Healthy people could cut their risk of heart disease in half with a new “super pill” that combines low doses of aspirin and drugs that lower blood pressure and cholesterol, a study said. “We believe that the polypill probably has the potential to reduce heart disease by 60 [...]
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March 27, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Drug quality control systems have many problems, resulting in substandard medicines on the market, said an official at a meeting held by Vietnamese Ministry of Health (MoH) on March 25 in Hanoi. LookAtVietnam – Drug quality control systems have many problems, resulting in substandard medicines on the market, said an official at a [...]
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March 26, 2009
People buy medicines from a pharmacy on Hai Ba Trung Street in Hanoi. Hospitals in Vietnam tend to overuse injections and prescribe too many vitamins, experts said at a conference in Hanoi. More than 2,000 cases of patients suffering medicinal side effects were recorded in hospitals nationwide last year, and most of them could have [...]
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