Over 300,000 people got infected with influenza virus in the first three months of 2013, according to Tran Dac Phu, Deputy Head of the Preventive Medicine Department under the Ministry [ … ]

Vietnamese have grown taller by 4cm in the last 35 years, according to the National Institute of Nutrition.

An increasing number of people have contracted human influenza type A/H1N1 in recent days, including whole families, but doctors are calling for public calm after establishing it is merely s [ … ]

A protein in breast milk may help reverse antibiotic resistance and offer a new path against superbugs that cause pneumonia and staph infections, US researchers reported.

Smoking may pose a bigger health threat to women than men, say researchers.

Scientists said they had found a brain region that controls physical ageing, opening the possibility of one day being able to manipulate it to effect how people grow old.

Authorities in the two major cities of Ha Noi and HCM City will delay an increase in the prices of a number of healthcare services that was scheduled for September.

Three more swine flu cases have been confirmed in the northern mountain province of Lao Cai, bringing the total number of infections to eight.

A pioneering method of reconstructive surgery by Vietnamese doctors has been recognised by a prestigious German foundation and one, Dr. Nguyen The Hoang, has won plaudits for his outstanding [ … ]

New drug-resistant strains of the parasite that causes malaria have been identified by scientists.