Việt Nam News

The Cần Thơ Oncology Hospital has treated its first two patients with benign thyroid nodules using radiofrequency ablation (RFA).

Hà Tĩnh Province has decided to give land and partially fund the construction of a house for the three orphaned sisters who donated their mother’s organs after she died suddenly.

Residents of Ninh Phước District’s Phước Sơn Commune in the southern province of Ninh Thuận are worried because of the increasing number of landslides along the Dinh River.

Certain types of vehicles will be exempt from paying tolls at the Bến Thuỷ I toll station connecting the central provinces of Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh, the Ministry of Transport (MoT) said on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Health has urged relevant agencies to develop a Government decree on dietary supplements to control the production, trade, advertisement and labelling of the products.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has announced a National Monitoring Programme for Avian Flu to prevent the spread of the virus. Two cases were recently discovered in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế.

The number of methanol poisoning cases has surged over the past three months compared with previous years, according to information presented at a workshop Monday in Ha Noi on the effect of alcohol abuse and the treatment of methanol poisoning.

A new surgical technique developed by renowned obstetric surgeon Nguyễn Viết Tiến, also Deputy Health Minister, could replace the IVF (in-vitro fertilization) method for thousands of infertile women.

A rescue team works to lift a container truck that fell on its side, crushing a sedan yesterday afternoon on National Highway No 10 in Lộc Hạ Ward, Nam Định Province.

Demand for electricity in the second quarter of this year will increase by 12 per cent at the peak of the dry season, which usually records the highest power consumption of the year, according to the national power company, Electricity of Vietnam (EVN).

An 18-month-old girl was brought recently to the Paediatrics Hospital 1 in HCM City from Tiền Giang Province with vaginal bleeding.

A pulmonary embolism is dangerous and potentially life-threatening. The fatality rate is 60 per cent of the total number of patients with a pulmonary embolism, if they are not treated.

A student at her dance class in Hà Nội’s Gia Lâm District. — VNS Photo Việt Thanh

Long Biên District People’s Committee chairwoman Vũ Thu Hà on Tuesday proposed that the municipal people’s committee provide guidance to concerned organisations to move the Gia Lâm Train Plant.

Việt Nam aims to reduce its drug hotspots, destroy five to 10 per cent of these places annually and set up a model for drug prevention and control in every district.

A fire broke out in Quốc Đại company’s 1,000 sqm workshop and warehouses in the northern province of Thanh Hóa’s Hoằng Hóa District on Monday evening.

Nine primary students in central Hà Tĩnh Province needed emergency hospitalisation after eating seeds they picked from the school’s yard.

A total of 5,500 ducklings tested positive for the H5N6 avian infection and other 1,000 dead ducklings were buried at the landfill site on Monday.