Traffic, drowning cause deaths

Traffic accidents and drowning are two of the leading causes of accidental deaths in Viet Nam, according to health experts at the second National Scientific Conference on Injury Prevention in Ha Noi yesterday...

Media urged to boost disease prevention effort

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien called on the mass media to strengthen communication activities on the hand-foot-mouth (HFM) disease at a press conference yesterday....

Malignant tumour in eye socket removed

A malignant tumour in a patient's left eye socket, measuring 7x7cm, was successfully removed at the HCM City-based Cho Ray Hospital after a complicated two-hour operation...

JAPAN-VIETNAM offers to assist in training of Vietnamese nurses

JAPAN-VIETNAM was willing to provide assistance to help Viet Nam build capacity for medical personnel, especially nurses, in compliance with JAPAN-VIETNAMese standards...

Balloons risk to kids, says doctor

Children should not play with balloons made from poisonous rubber, brim-stone and colouring substances, experts have warned...

Hand-foot-mouth cases on increase with 135 dead

Nearly 5,000 new cases of the hand-foot-mouth disease were reported over the last week, raising the total number of cases to more than 76,120 this year, the Preventive Medicine Administration announced on Sunday...

City to inspect medical retailers

The HCM City Department of Health is setting up 25 inspection teams to appraise the working of both private and foreign medical clinics, drug and cosmetics stores, and cosmetic surgery clinics...

World Bank project to help fight bird flu

The World Bank hopes its new Additional Financing for the Viet Nam Avian and Human Influenza Control and Preparedness Project will enable the Government to further improve the response to the highly pathogenic bird flu and other newly emerging zoonotic diseases..

Blood filter saves life of hand-foot-mouth patient

The first serious hand-foot-mouth patient in the north to be cured by blood filter was out of danger, said Dr Phan Huu Phuc from the National Hospital for Paediatrics Phuc, from the hospital's recuperation ward, said the three-year-old girl, from Ha Noi, was discharged from hospital yesterday after 10 days of treatment...

Disease risk climbs after deadly Central America rains

Health authorities have warned of virus outbreaks and food shortages throughout Central America as tolls rose from heavy rains that brought raging floods and landslides to the region...