Posts Tagged ‘health’
The reappearance of bird flu has opened up the threat of the virus combining with the swine flu virus to become more lethal and capable of human transmission, a health official warned at a meeting of the National Steering Board of Human Flu Prevention on December 2.
Health officials recommend washing hands with soap as [...]
Following media reports about chemical-laden porridge, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has started issuing fines to several city businesses, said an official on December 2.
Chief investigator Nguyen Minh Hung said out of 55 businesses selling “nutritious” porridge, inspectors fined 27 shops and suspended operations of three others in districts 7, Go [...]
The conference is held by Vietnam and Hungary to share experiences in the fight against climate change and newly appeared diseases on November 4-5 in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)
Scientists, at a conference held in Hanoi November 4-5, said climate change would affect around ten percent of Vietnam’s population due to flooding, cause a loss of ten percent [...]
Health Ministry plans to vaccinate against H1N1 flu
QĐND – Thursday, October 15, 2009, 20:14 (GMT+7)
Now that Vietnam has a formula to vaccinate against H1N1 flu for various ages, except patients with chronic diseases, the Health Ministry is developing a H1N1 flu vaccination plan.
The Head of the Health Ministry’s Department for Preventive Health and Environment [...]
Korea Life gifts 1.000 free health check vouchers
QĐND – Thursday, October 15, 2009, 20:14 (GMT+7)
PANO – On the occasion of the Vietnamese Women’s Day, Korea Life Insurance Company Limited (Vietnam), or better known as Korea Life, will cooperate with An Sinh Hospital (HCMC) and Tri Duc Hospital (Ha Noi) to organize a free health [...]
The Ministry of Health has confirmed the fifth death from swine flu, that of a nine-year-old boy in Long Khanh town, Dong Nai Province, on September 9.
A swine-flu patient receives treatment at the General Hospital of Quang Nghai Province (Photo: Tuoi Tre)
He had a fever since August 29 and was admitted to a hospital [...]
President Barack Obama demanded action now from Congress to fix a health system reduced to “breaking point,” vowing to end the moral taint that deprives millions of Americans of treatment.
US President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress on his embattled healthcare reform plan at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo)
In [...]
The Health Ministry has issued strict regulations on drug advertisements, including procedures for advertising and penalties for violations.
The Health Ministry turns scanner on drug advertisements
Accordingly, only businesses that have registered drugs are allowed to register advertisements for those drugs. Drugs that have not been issued with registration numbers for circulation in Vietnam but have [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – Sexually transmitted and hereditary diseases could be avoided if more couples had health checks before marriage, experts have said. Housewife Nguyen Thu Hien said she didn’t even consider getting a health check before she tied the knot, believing love was the most important thing. But the cracks began to appear after they [...]
The nutrition consultancy week for community health will be held in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City for a week from Nov. 22 by the National Institution of Nutrition (NIN). The event aims to provide nutrition and malnutrition prevention information to the community, especially on diets for children and pregnant women; raise [...]