Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Concern about birth defects is deeply rooted in the country's recent history and has brought a surge in ultrasound checks

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health on April 5 sent an urgent dispatch to chairpersons in cities and provinces across the country for immediate implementation of preventive and precautionary measures against H7N9 virus, with reports of a more complicated development of the strain.

Vietnam is one of the first Southeast Asian countries to open a professional social work school, yet this profession hasn’t been ‘awakened’ until recently.

At a meeting in the central city of Da Nang on November 26 to review the movement ‘Residents to participate in prevention of HIV/AIDS’, for the period 2008-2012 and to implement a national strategy until 2020, it was reported that Vietnam adds more than 1,000 new cases of HIV every month.

DANANG – Danang City’s Sponsorship Association for Underprivileged Women and Children last week received financial assistance from organizations and individuals for the Danang Cancer Hospital that has been built thanks to the contributions of donors nationwide.

The number of obese people in Vietnam is at a high level, and it is forecasted to result in an increase of related diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and sexual disorder, according to a survey.

The newly-issued hospital fees are still not estimated based on the seven price constituents. The Ministry of Health says in the future the hospital fees will include all of these factors, so the fees will increase. This will be done in parallel with the expansion of health insurance coverage to all people (especially disadvantaged subjects).

Ha Noi - Vietnam has asked international health experts to help investigate a mystery illness that has killed 19 people and sickened 171 others in an impoverished district in central Vietnam, an official said Friday.

How to measure medical corruption? Tuan Anh Nguyen, a researcher at Hanoi University of Pharmacy, believes informal payments to doctors are "a dominant factor" in high prices of the older off-patent drugs that make up the lion's share of prescriptions in many emerging markets.

A Vietnamese man was in a stable condition in hospital Friday after doctors removed a giant tumour from his right leg that weighed more than the rest of his body, hospital officials said.

Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training said at a meeting Thursday that more than 90 percent of schools in the country have hygienic toilets.

The Human Rights Watch’s recent report on forced labor and abuses in drug detention centres in Vietnam is groundless and distorts the reality in Vietnam with bad intention, the Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga said in Hanoi on Sept. 9.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Monday warned about a new mutant strain of the deadly bird flu H5N1 virus in China and Vietnam, saying there could be a "major resurgence" of the disease.

HANOI - A survey shows up to 90 per cent of country people who move to big cities aren't covered by social insurance and they don't qualify for subsidised care while they are away from their areas.

The number of people suffering from diabetes in Ho Chi Minh City has doubled in the last 3 years by 8 percent and by more than 6 per cent throughout Vietnam since 2001.