Medical
Heart transplant race saves 23-year-old patient who depends on ECMO
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Ho Chi Minh City - Doctors have just performed a heart transplant from a brain-dead donor, saving a late-stage heart failure patient who is being kept alive with ECMO.
5-year-old girl hospitalized for conjunctivitis after playing with soap bubbles
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Dak Lak - A 5-year-old girl in the area had to be hospitalized for treatment after playing with soap bubbles.
Cross-Vietnam heart transplant saves young man with end-stage heart failure
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Ho Chi Minh City - A 23-year-old male patient suffering from end-stage heart failure and maintaining life with ECMO, has just been successfully transplanted a heart from a brain-dead donor.
Hot weather and high temperatures threaten food safety, especially milk
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High summer temperatures not only put pressure on human health but also increase the risk of food insecurity, especially for milk and dairy products.
Emergency treatment for 11-year-old child stabbed in the head with knife
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An 11-year-old boy was hospitalized in emergency with a knife stuck in his head after an accident while playing with his older brother.
Ministry of Health responds to medical practice license adjustments
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The Ministry of Health has just responded about the conditions for granting and adjusting medical practice licenses for doctors.
Haunted by being stung by a red ant, widespread skin damage
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HCMC - Many people are stung by ants in sensitive areas such as the eyes, armpits, genitals, groin, etc., causing widespread skin damage that takes a long time to heal.
Successfully rescued a man whose leg was cut by a harrow blade
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The Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases has just treated a case admitted in a state of shock, pain, and blood loss due to a plow blade cutting through the leg.
The rate of use of traditional medicine is too low, only 4.5%
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In recent times, the proportion of traditional medicine use in the total expenditure structure of medicine has decreased from 7.5% to 4.5%.
Need to soon abolish referral procedures for rare and dangerous diseases
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The proposal to remove the referral procedure for some rare and serious diseases that can be transferred directly to higher-level treatment... is good news for patients.
People should be wary of "feng shui eyebrows"
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HCMC - People need to be wary of advertisements from feng shui eyebrow establishments when they do not know the establishment's operations.
The list of health insurance drugs will be updated at least once a year
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The Ministry of Health is updating and adding new drugs with high treatment effectiveness to the list of health insurance drugs.
What do patients get when they skip the referral procedure for some diseases?
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The draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance (HI) stipulates the removal of referral procedures for a number of rare and serious diseases.
15 Quang Nam students hospitalized after eating yogurt
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15 primary school students in Quang Nam were hospitalized for emergency treatment, showing signs of poisoning after eating yogurt.
Preventing law evasion and "erasing traces" when selling drugs online
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Pharmacies have many disguised forms for selling drugs online to circumvent the law and erase traces.
Organ donation - a noble act that saves many lives
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On October 24, Phu Tho General Hospital performed organ donation surgery to save the lives of two kidney failure patients.
There are many dangers present in everyday foods
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From the reality of recent food safety incidents, it shows that there are still dangers present in food products consumed daily.
Can Tho states the cause of local shortage of some drugs and chemicals
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Can Tho - Local shortage of some drugs and chemicals due to contractors not having enough supplies or not supplying enough according to hospital orders.
3 more Family Doctor clinics in Can Tho
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Can Tho - 3 Family Doctor clinics built and put into operation by the Department of Health are expected to help reduce overload at upper-level hospitals.
Can Tho mobilizes all resources to invest in grassroots healthcare
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Can Tho - The health sector continues to consolidate, improve, and propose key solutions to improve the quality of grassroots health care activities in the new situation.
