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(09:13:28 AM 06/08/2014)
(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.
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(17:53:34 PM 21/07/2014)
(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.
Tags: Seminar, gives, updates, on asbestos-related, diseases -
(11:43:08 AM 27/06/2014)
(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.
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(11:13:52 AM 20/06/2014)
(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.
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(17:02:04 PM 04/06/2014)
(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.
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(09:38:02 AM 19/05/2014)
(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Some 1,355 footwear workers were hospitalized with symptoms of "toxicant syndrome" after drinking water at a factory in Thanh Hoa Province.
Tags: Over, 1300, workers, diagnosed, with, neurotoxicity, in, central, Vietnam -
(21:02:46 PM 23/04/2014)
(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.
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(14:27:11 PM 15/04/2014)
(Tinmoitruong.vn) - About 15 percent of Vietnam’s population have mental disorders, a forum in Hanoi heard on April 14.
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(10:20:09 AM 25/03/2014)
(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.
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(09:52:53 AM 06/03/2014)
(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.
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(16:29:35 PM 13/02/2014)
(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.
Tags: bird flu, Viet Nam

HIV egg rumours dismissed
(Tinmoitruong.vn) - An official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has rejected a rumour surfacing in the social media that Chinese chicken eggs sold in Vietnam have been injected with blood contaminated with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV).

HCM City succeeds in reducing gender imbalance at birth
(Tinmoitruong.vn) - HCM City has been successful in controlling gender imbalance at birth with a sex ratio of 106 to107 boys per 100 girls a year in the last four years, according to the city's Family Planning and Population Division.

"Irrational" Health Insurance Law amendments draw public ire
(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Though it offers more benefits for insured patients, the amended Health Insurance Law, which took effect last month, faces complaints about irrational provisions like refusing coverage if they do not go to the hospital designated on their insurance card.