Vietnamese in Mozambique asked to keep watchful eye on Ebola

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The Vietnamese Embassy in Mozambique has alerted the Vietnamese people living the south-eastern African country to Ebola, the deadly virus reaping panic across West Africa and likely spreading to other areas in the continent.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The Ministries of Health, and Science and Technology, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), have held a scientific seminar on asbestos, a kind of mineral used in construction, and its deadly impact on workers’ lives.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - All provinces and cities are expected to achieve key indicators related to leprosy elimination by 2015, according to the agency that provides technical guidance to hospitals for the national leprosy prevention programme.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The proportion of drug addicts nationwide to join a two-year methadone treatment programme is 93 percent, with nearly 16 percent of them continuing to use drugs, albeit at a lower frequency, according to the Ministry of Health.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - There are 700,000 to one million couples in the reproductive age are infertile, according to research conducted by the Central Obstetrics Hospital and the Hanoi Medical University.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Some 1,355 footwear workers were hospitalized with symptoms of "toxicant syndrome" after drinking water at a factory in Thanh Hoa Province.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - U.S. researchers said Monday that muscle weakness from long-term alcoholism may be due to an inability of mitochondria, the powerhouses of cells, to self- repair.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - About 15 percent of Vietnam’s population have mental disorders, a forum in Hanoi heard on April 14.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Later this year, Vietnam will become the first country that treats multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) cases with new medicines, a health official has said.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - A baby treated for HIV within hours of birth is free of the virus nearly a year later, in the second case that has raised hopes about early treatment, doctors said.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Authorities in the south central province of Quang Nam said Tuesday they have culled flocks of ducks which tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu in some rural communes.