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KOVA Prize for outstanding social work, research awarded

The 17th annual KOVA Prize honoured a medical research project, five individuals for their social service and more than 100 students for scientific research and outstanding academic results at a ceremony in HCM City on Saturday.

Vietnamese doctors introduce robotic surgery overseas

Doctors from Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have recently visited the Philippines to perform robot-assisted sleeve gastrectomy operations, showcasing the technique to their local peers.

From cash-strapped university graduate to head of Stem Cell Institute

A biotechnology researcher who becomes successful with a drug could save millions of people is the favorite saying of Pham Van Phuc, 37, head of the Stem Cell Institute under the HCM City University of Natural Sciences.

HCM City hospital provides free screening for colorectal cancer

Doctors at Binh Dan Hospital in HCM City are providing free screening for and counselling on colorectal cancer for 1,000 people to improve public awareness.

Vietnamese girl hospitalized because of self-medicate for weight loss

Binh Dan Hospital in HCM City yesterday announced a 22-year-old girl in the southern province of Binh Duong was hospitalized because of kidney failure after using weight-loss medications by herself.

 

Binh Dan Hospital’s doctors remove 4-kilo abdominal tumour

Doctors at Binh Dan Hospital in HCM City performed surgery to remove a 4-kilo tumour in the abdomen of a 64-year-old woman late last month, the hospital said in a press release on Monday, July 9.

HCM City adds facilities to hospitals to cope with overcrowding

HCM City has earmarked 665ha of land by 2020 to upgrade existing hospitals and build new facilities so that they can cope with the relentless overcrowding, according to its Department of Health.

Modern medical equipment still cannot be fully exploited

Hospitals have spent tens of billions of dong to buy expensive medical equipment, but  have not made adequate investment in human resources to use the machines in an effective way.

As Vietnam’s population ages, CVI cases increase

 VietNamNet Bridge – The proportion of patients with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is increasing steadily as the population ages rapidly, but most of them do not receive timely treatment, experts say.

Man lives with a grapefruit-sized bladder stone for a decade

 VietNamNet Bridge - Mr. Nguyen Van Duc, 59, in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang says he felt the weight of the stone in the stomach for more than ten years.