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Killer disease still baffles researchers

Government bodies remain baffled through the mysterious skin condition that haskilled nearly 20 people and infected many more in Quang Ngai provincethough the Secretary of state for Health has sent two delegations to research.Pham Hong Phuong, director from the Quang NgaiProvince Department of Health, stated the ministry has came to the conclusion it ispalm dermatitis with liver problems. But he declined to supply furtherinformation concerning the ministry's conclusion or speculate about this. But Dr

Killer disease still baffles researchers

QUANG NGAI — Government bodies remain baffled through the mysterious skin condition which has wiped out nearly 20 people and infected many more in Quang Ngai Province although the Secretary of state for Health has sent two delegations to research.Pham Hong Phuong, director from the Quang Ngai Province Department of Health, stated the ministry has came to the conclusion it's palm dermatitis with liver problems. But he declined to supply more information concerning the ministry's conclusion or speculate

PM looks to enhance ties with Aichi prefecture

HN — The Vietnamese Government can create favourable conditions for co-operation in trade, investment and tourism between Japan's Aichi prefecture and Viet Nam.Pm Nguyen Tan Dung made the statement while receiving Hideaki Ohmura, governor of Aichi, in Ha Noi yesterday."Japan is just one of Viet Nam's greatest direct traders and major buying and selling partners, and it has been the biggest ODA provider to Viet Nam for several years,Inch he stated, wished that Aichi works carefully with Vietnamese

Drug commissions damage medical ethics: seminar

Drug commissions damage medical ethics: seminar

A seminar titled “Ethics and challenges to ethical practicing” pointed out that commissions, which can be up to 40 percent paid by drug companies to doctors, have undermined medical ethics.

Vietnam to build livestock disease map

HCMC – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is collecting ideas from related agencies to prepare for the promulgation of an animal and poultry disease map.

All hospitals to be given thorough health checkup

All hospitals to be given thorough health checkup

The Ministry of Health will carry out its annual check on all hospital across the country from the beginning of October to December 12.

Hand-Foot-Mouth disease cases remain high

Vietnam has so far this year detected 52,321 cases infected with hand-foot-mouth disease, of whom 109 have died.

Health official requested to clarify background

Health official requested to clarify background

The Ministry of Health’s Party Committee has requested a deputy minister to explain about his alleged debt, fake doctorate degree and some other dubious issues

HIV/AIDS fight needs more funding

HIV/AIDS fight needs more funding

Domestic and foreign participants at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on May 12 agreed that Vietnam needs to increase budgets for programmes to fight HIV/AIDS.

Vietnam sees need for more staff in health care

Vietnam sees need for more staff in health care

Heath experts from Vietnam, Thailand and Bangladesh discussed measures to improve human resource development in the heath care sector at an international conference in Hanoi on April 28.

From Environment

Nutrious milk smugglers confiscated

THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed

No funds to evacuate landslide areas

HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of