Medical
Escaping about 100 seizures a day, the boy returned to school and played
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Ho Chi Minh City - After surgery at Children's Hospital 2, the child who used to have 100 seizures per day has now significantly reduced and has a normal life.
Doctors warn that lung disease is easily overlooked, detected when patients cough up blood
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Ho Chi Minh City - New blood cough detects lung fungus, doctors warn that the disease is easily overlooked in people with underlying diseases and old lung damage.
The first locality in the country with more than 4 million people having electronic health records established
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Ho Chi Minh City - After more than 3 months of free health check-ups for people, from May 25 to September 6, 2026, Ho Chi Minh City has had more than 4 million people examined and electronic health records created.
Businesses owe health insurance, employees get full medical examination and treatment money
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Businesses that are late in paying and evading health insurance (HI) are not only handled but also have to reimburse medical examination and treatment costs for employees.
Modern radiation therapy opens up more opportunities to prolong life for cancer patients
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Applying modern radiation therapy techniques, cancer patients can shorten treatment time, increase tumor control efficiency and limit damage to healthy tissues.
Increasing allowances, extending maternity leave from July 1st, many families are more reassured
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From July 1, many maternity regimes are adjusted such as increasing maternity allowances, increasing health care benefits and extending rest time in some cases.
Keeping the left leg for a 21-year-old girl after a life-threatening injury
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Her left leg was almost completely peeled off after the accident, the 21-year-old female patient faces the risk of amputation.
Repairing an abandoned hospital for 8 years into Ho Chi Minh City Psychiatric Hospital, Facility 4
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Ho Chi Minh City - The mental hospital facility in Binh Duong ward, which was built and then abandoned for 8 years, is being repaired for use.
Warning about the risk of intestinal perforation due to swallowing magnetic foreign objects
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A 5-year-old boy in Quang Ngai has just had emergency surgery by doctors at Children's Hospital of the City to remove a magnetic foreign object from the digestive tract.
Time to do physical therapy when shoulder and neck pain
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Shoulder and neck pain is a common condition in office workers, drivers, people who regularly use computers, phones or elderly people.
Counting back to the day of operation of Viet Duc Friendship Hospital, Ninh Binh facility
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Viet Duc Friendship Hospital Ninh Binh facility is accelerating completion to officially go into operation from July 10.
Prolonged abdominal pain, 14-year-old girl discovers 12cm spiral ovarian tumor
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Hanoi - A 14-year-old girl was hospitalized with severe abdominal pain and a 12cm spiral ovarian tumor was discovered.
Ho Chi Minh City sends doctors to homes to examine patients
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Ho Chi Minh City - Piloting home medical examinations for people in Ho Chi Minh City is expected to reduce the burden on upper-level hospitals and improve the effectiveness of grassroots healthcare.
When health insurance cards are less "sluggish" due to irregularities
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From July 1, 2026, a notable change in health insurance (HI) policy officially takes effect: People who go for outpatient examinations outside the tuyến at some qualified medical facilities will be paid 50% of the benefit level by the HI fund for many diseases and groups of diseases that were previously not covered.
Medical tourism opens up directions to attract international visitors to Da Nang
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Da Nang - Medical tourism is considered a strategic segment, where hospitals, hotels, travel and health recovery services create new value.
Outpatient examination places covered by 50% health insurance
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From July 1, 2026, people participating in health insurance who self-go for outpatient examinations outside the line can be paid 50% of the benefit level, but not all medical examination and treatment facilities apply it.
Patient with bladder cancer gets a new bladder shaped from the intestine
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Hanoi - After bladder removal due to cancer, a male patient over 60 years old was given a new bladder by doctors from a segment of the intestine.
Severe headache, man discovers cerebral vascular deformity rupture
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Doctors said that cerebral vascular malformations often progress silently, and the disease is only detected when blood vessels rupture or through periodic health check-ups.
Non-cultured epidermal cell transplantation opens up more opportunities for treatment of vitiligo
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Ho Chi Minh City - Non-culture epidermal cell transplantation technology opens up opportunities for skin pigmentation recovery for people with vitiligo.
Free health check-ups right in the ward, people can rest assured to monitor chronic diseases
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Free mobile examination points in Ho Chi Minh City are bringing healthcare services closer to people.
