To-your-health: Sleep: effects on development and behavior

Quality sleep promotes child development and helps with learning.  Conversely, not getting enough sleep can affect your health, as well as affect your memory, logical reasoning, behavior and ability to control your emotions.

To-your-health: Understanding Dengue fever Dengue fever is a flu-like illness caused by one of the serotypes (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3 or DEN-4) from the Flaviviridae family, and is transmitted by a female mosquito from the Aedes aegypti species. Persons who harbour the virus may or may not be symptomatic with most cases being mild and resolving on their own.

To-your-health: Time to Get Your Shots Most people have had the flu, but not everyone knows that the word “influenza” refers to a very specific group of viruses that are a dangerous subset of the various common colds and flus we’re familiar with. In Việt Nam, you can get it at any time of the year.

To-your-health: Vaccination, what is it all about? The concept of vaccination and immunisation is very ancient. Evidence of early inoculation to protect people from some disease was found in China. However, the rate of success and protection was not very good. The first modern vaccine was developed in England in the late 18th Century and was used against an infectious disease called smallpox or variola.

Being pregnant after age 35: challenges and risks The decision to have a child is probably the most important in our life! More and more frequently, a woman plans to have her first baby after 35 years old (yo) because of economic or professional reasons, even sometimes simply for fear of changes in her body. Why would it be more complicated at this age?

What is paediatric emergency?

Paediatric emergency is all about saving the lives of children. It’s very different from the approach of a general paediatrician, who considers the most likely cause of a child’s illness first. An emergency paediatrician always considers life-threatening conditions before turning to more common explanations.

Việt Nam to have a University of Health Science

Nguyễn Minh Lợi, deputy director of the Department of Science, Technology and Training, under the Ministry of Health talks to Việt Nam News Agency on Việt Nam’s plan to establish a University of Health Science.

Understanding pharyngitis among children

Adenovirus, Enterovirus, Herpes simplex and Epstein Barr virus cause 95 per cent of sore throats in children below 5 and 70 per cent of sore throats in children between 5 to 15 years old.

Depression…a real problem

Depression is a psychological condition that about 50 per cent of us experience at some point in our lives. Teens are one age group who are likely to experience serious depression.

Helicobacter pylori is a risk

If you’re from a Western country and have lived most of your life there, you will probably never have come into contact with Helicobacter pylori. If you’re living in Việt Nam or Southeast Asia, however, your chances of being infected with this pathogen are greatly increased.