Doctors at the Ho Chi Minh City-based Hospital for Tropical Diseases have diagnosed Trypanosoma evansi, a kind of blood parasite affecting a large number of wild and domesticated animal species, in a patient admitted to the hospital. The 38-year-old...
Hand-foot-mouth disease has spread widely in Vietnam’s southern provinces, infecting numerous children in the region, state media reported. The Ho Chi Minh City-based Paediatrics Hospitals No 1's Neurology and Infectious Diseases is full with...
The Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals of Vietnam (IVAC) is going to produce safe vaccine to cope with influenza A/H5N1, the Vietnam News reported on April 23. The institute’s phase 1 clinical trial of an inactivated influenza A/H5N1...
Health workers in Vietnam need to improve their behavior toward patients, respecting them and offering help for them when necessary, said Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien. “Health workers should say thanks to their patients, deal with them...
Two high-rise buildings in the Dich Vong Residential Quarter in Hanoi's Cau Giay District have spent two weeks without clean water, affecting the lives of more than 300 households. The two affected buildings, N09B1 and N09B2, house upwards of 1,200...
Vietnam is forecast to experience severe weather conditions in 2015, especially heat waves and droughts, according to the National Hydro-Meteorology Service (HMS). At a conference reviewing disaster prevention initiatives in 2014 and plans for 2015...
The central city has created a pilot programme to build stronger houses in disaster-affected areas in co-operation with domestic and foreign insurance companies. Head of the city's Climate Change Co-Ordination Office (CCCO), Dinh Quang Cuong, said...
The number of Vietnamese students in the U.S. increased by 3% on year to nearly 16,580 in the 2013-2014 school year, said the Institute of International Education (IIE). Vietnam ranks seventh among nations worldwide with the highest number of...
In November last year, Brian Leung, a Southeast Asia-based journalist, observed: “Vietnam continues to roll out the red carpet for foreign biotech giants, including the infamous Monsanto, to sell the controversial genetically modified (GM) corn...
The Association of Agent Orange/Dioxin Victims in the central city of Danangon April 14 presented three houses worth VND123 million ($5,693) to poor local AO victims’ families in the hope of helping them improve their living conditions. Le Thi Huong...
