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 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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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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August 28, 2011
An undated file photo of a patient being treated in the emergency room. When his brother was pronounced dead after an hour of treatment in the emergency room, 18-year-old Nguyen Van Dung went berserk and made good on a threat he’d made earlier. He took a knife and stabbed two doctors, one of them to [...]
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July 30, 2011
A pharmacy near the a cancer hospital in Hanoi with posters promoting cancer-curing food supplements made from lingzhi mushroom, noni and ginseng Hundreds of pharmacists, doctors and drug makers are pushing anti-cancer supplements on naïve cancer patients. Vietnamese consumers have been willing to pay for these expensive products in the hopes of curing their illnesses, [...]
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July 9, 2011
Patients surround a health worker to ask for examination instructions at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien last week reported that, every year, Vietnamese citizens spend up to US$1 billion on treatment at hospitals in Singapore. Tien noted that while foreign medical expertise is not significantly [...]
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June 12, 2011
Deputy Prime Minister called for stricter oversight of Vietnam’s gender selection practices Children at a kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City. Health authorities in Vietnam have warned against serious gender imbalance over the past several years. When doctors at a private medical service in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5 told Tran Thi Thanh [...]
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January 10, 2011
People prospecting for gold from a river in Quang Nam Province  Many nameless tombs in the central region’s Quang Nam Province are the only markers for gold miners who died prospecting far away from their homes.  Sau, a local xe om driver, said the gold miners had died without their families around, so he and residents of [...]
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December 20, 2010
Doctors prepare sperms for an in vitro fertilization case at Hung Vuong Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City. Sperm shortage at the city hospitals have made infertile couples more desperate. Infertility is a growing problem among young couples in Ho Chi Minh City, doctors say. What’s worse, the city is short on sperm. Some desperate couples [...]
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January 17, 2010
LookAtVietnam – The number of children suffering from Kawasaki disease, an illness that causes high fever, diarrhoea, affects the lymph nodes and seriously damages children’s hearts, has recently been on the rise, head of the Children Hospital No1’s Heart Department Vu Minh Phuc has warned.According to Duc, around 20 cases a year are reported, with [...]
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