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Hospitals to start mutually recognising test results

Nguyen Thi Lua, 54, a homemaker in Ha Noi, was detected with leukaemia at Saint Paul Hospital where she had registered for a check-up, funded by health insurance.

Pregnant women counselled about Zika virus

 VietNamNet Bridge – A pregnant woman visiting the Hung Vuong Obstetrics Hospital in HCM City picked up a leaflet about the Zika virus off a shelf in the examination room.

Inadequate testing thwarts efforts to measure Zika's impact

 One major hurdle is thwarting efforts to measure the extent of the Zika epidemic and its suspected links to thousands of birth defects in Brazil: accurate diagnosis of a virus that still confounds blood tests.