Deputy Ministry of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said that any health unit found violating regulations would face suspension.

Vietnam needs VND7.6 trillion, or roughly US$365 million, for the treatment of HIV-positive people in the 2013-2020 period, but such an amount is difficult to mobilize given the tight State [ … ]

Hand-Foot-Mouth disease (HFMD) is now at its peak, having infected a total of 796 children in HCM City in April, an increase of 127 per cent against the same period last year.

At least three children have been vaccinated against measles, rubella and mumps with expired Trivivac vaccines in central Phu Yen Province's Tuy Hoa City.

A few months ago, two-year-old Nguyen Tran Gia Huy, who had begun vomiting in the middle of the night, was taken to a new paediatric ward at Tan Phu District Hospital.

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien on May 20 in Geneva shared Viet Nam experience of epidemic prevention and combating at the 66th World Health Assembly (WHA). 

British researchers have used a novel form of MRI to identify crucial developmental processes in the brain that are vulnerable to the effects of premature birth, according to a report publis [ … ]

The Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases recently received a 40-year-old male patient from Thai Binh Province who was in the state of shock, gangrene on his left arm, caused by infection o [ … ]

Around a year ago, a man was admitted to Ho Chi Minh City Medical University Hospital with half his body paralyzed by a stroke that had also severely impaired his speech. 

The Hanoi Health Department started a new project on May 19 to upgrade and expand Ba Vi General Hospital with total investment of 500 billion VND (about 23.8 million USD).