Việt Nam has made great progress in endoscopic surgery for esophageal cancer patients Việt Nam has made many advances in endoscopic surgery for patients with esophageal cancer. Up to 90 per cent of esophageal cancer patients can live at least five years if the disease is detected and treated early.

Yên Bái Province strives to close health care gap

Narrowing the gap in hospital care is vital to ensuring that everyone has equal access to medical facilities. Yên Bái Province has been focusing on deploying new and specialised techniques that bring practical benefits to all patients.

Mông man discharged from hospital after facial surgery The face of Thao A Tu, 52, has a new look after successful facial surgery by doctors the National Hospital of Odonto and Stomatology (NHOS).

Mông ethnic man with facial neurofibroma gets free surgery

Doctors of the National Hospital of Odonto and Stomatology on Tuesday begin a facial operation for Thào A Tu, a 52 year old patient with with very huge neurofibroma on his right cheek.

World first as Vietnamese patient has entire arm bone replaced

Doctors at the Vinmec Center for Orthopedic Trauma & Sports Medicine have made a successful surgery to recover the arm for a patient with bone cancer. This is the first time in the world that a combination of materials, titanium alloy and PEEK biomedical material, based on 3D printing technology has been used to replace a bone in the arm.

5 priority groups allowed to go out in HCM City after 6pm

HCM City authorities have exempted certain categories of people from the dusk-to-dawn restriction they have imposed hoping to break the back of COVID-19.

Celebrities risk reputations on social networks More and more Vietnamese artists have publicly advertised a product or a brand on social networks, which has provided them with significant additional income but could also damage their popularity.

HCM City's health sector wins regional, int'l acclaim

HCM City's Department of Health  is continuing its focus on developing the application of state-of-the-art healthcare techniques at general and specialised hospitals that its counterparts in Asia have also been pursuing.

Stem cell transplants provide hope for blood cancer patients

The institute first carried out an autologous stem cell transplant in 2006 and since then, hundreds of people have found a new life after receiving a stem cell transplant.

Doctors in HCM City remove rare, life-threatening heart tumour   Doctors at Gia Định People’s Hospital in HCM City have successfully removed a rare, life-threatening heart tumour in a 40-year-old patient.