Zinc deficiency in the body will affect growth, causing malnutrition and stunting. Micronutrient deficiency is the main cause of short stature in Vietnamese youth, according to experts from the Institute of Nutrition.

Doctors at the National Military Hospital 108 (Hospital 108) have just successfully performed a liver transplant with incompatible blood types on a 15-year-old girl.

The supply of vaccines for the expanded vaccination programme has been disrupted since the beginning of 2023 due to changes in the vaccine procurement mechanism.

Vietnam's General Department of Preventive Medicine has requested more information from the WHO and the Chinese agency for International Health Regulations (IHR) regarding an increase in respiratory illness cases occurring in China.

The majority of patients seek medical treatment at a late stage, leading to the necessity of removing the eyeball to preserve life in 70 per cent of cases.

An Eye Tumor Unit for Children, the first of its kind in Vietnam, has been established at the Central Eye Hospital in Hanoi.

UNICEF is calling for enhanced mental health strategies to support the young generation in VN as part of World Children’s Day 2023.

Previously, because of a regulation on ceiling for total expenditures on patients with health insurance, doctors had to ‘weigh and measure’ expenses to be sure the expenditure was not higher than allowed.

A Hanoi hospital is changing patient lives with its hand and arm graft surgery

La Vie International Hospital, a hospital for Vietnamese expatriates in Laos, was inaugurated in Vientiane on November 18.

From mid-September until now, Ho Chi Minh City has recorded 63 monkeypox (Mpox) cases. The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) on November 18 said that all cases were homosexuality among gay men.

The proportion of patients participating in clinical trials for drug research and development in Vietnam is just 1-2 percent, while the figure is 10 percent in other countries.

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in screening, diagnosis and treatment of some genetic diseases by Hanoi Medical University shows the great potential of AI in the healthcare sector.

The first case of Scrub typhus was recorded on a 37-month-old baby girl in the South region who was rushed to a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City in severe condition.

Vietnamese surgeons have successfully carried out surgery on a child patient with epilepsy thanks to Taiwanese  peers through remote consultation.

Vietnam has recorded 136,000 dengue fever cases, including 35 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

Vietnam is one of three countries in Southeast Asia that have the simplest procedures for licensing medicine practitioners, according to Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan.

Artificial Intelligence is applied more widely in the medical field in Vietnam to help take better care of the public’s health and reduce workload for the medical teams.

The Ministry of Health has reported that from early July 2023 to the present, Vietnam has consistently recorded cases of monkeypox (Mpox), with approximately 63 per cent of these cases involving individuals infected with HIV.

A 29-year-old Vietnamese man flew from Japan to Vietnam to have a gallbladder operation. Surgeons found 3,200 gallstones with a diameter of 1-5 mm and a weight of 200 grams.