Health

One more HCM City resident has tested positive for monkeypox, the seventh in Việt Nam since the first patient was identified in October last year, health authorities said on Tuesday.…

Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed achievements of the Vietnamese health sector in his congratulatory video sent to the sector on Thursday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus…

Famous Hoi An banh mi eatery Phuong has been suspended for three months and fined VND96 million ($3,935) for food safety violations following a mass poisoning incident. Le Tri Thanh,…

Ho Chi Minh City will spend VND700 billion (US$28.6 million) building a new blood bank as the city’s first and only one has become overloaded. The city’s legislative body, the…

The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai saw the highest number of rabies-caused fatalities with nine, followed by Nghe An and Dien Bien provinces with six cases each, Binh Phuoc…

Vietnam will export two million vaccine doses against African swine fever to the Philippines by October, the government said on Wednesday, one week after it approved domestic use of the…

Vietnamese people are among the groups with highest risk of stroke, but the nation’s healthcare system is ill-equipped to handle the problem, an expert says. Doctor Nguyen Huy Thang, deputy…

A video circulating on social media claims vaccines brought to Vietnam by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation led to a massive increase in the number of autism patients in…

Vietnam’s capital city Hanoi could become a hotspot for dengue fever soon, local media has reported, citing the country’s National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology, and Entomology. Dengue fever has shown…

Vietnam has increased measures to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease after the country recorded about 9,000 cases and three fatalities in what could turn into an outbreak of the…