Antidepressant drug citalopram could help significantly relieve agitation in patients with Alzheimer's disease, but at the cost of slightly decreasing cognitive function and increasing heart attack risk,

 High-dose vitamin C can boost the cancer-killing effect of chemotherapy in the lab and mice, research suggests.

 VietNamNet Bridge - From early January, Hanoi recorded 98 cases of typhus, suspected of measles, of which 30 cases were positive for measles.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 140 out of 894 calls to the hotline service of the Ministry of Health were related to reporting bribery instances and irresponsible or high-handed behaviour by doctors.

 Levels of depression and anxiety in people with severe rheumatoid arthritis are higher than previously reported, according to a new research by British scientists.

Many public hospitals in Hanoi will install CCTV in the emergency and examination wards to supervise health workers and to facilitate management, said the Director of the Hanoi Department of Health.

In 2013, a series of "shocking" incidents and scandals occurred in the health sector. The worst case is the one that is widely known by Vietnamese as “Cat Tuong,” in which a plastic surgeon threw the body of a female customer into the Red River.

 VietNamNet Bridge - With the number of people who are diagnosed with diabetes increasing by 211 percent in 10 years, Vietnam is named among the countries with the fastest growth rate in the number of diabetes patients across the world.

 A way of using nanoparticles to investigate the mechanisms underlying infertility has been developed by British scientists, according to a new report published in a scientific journal on Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Indian, Chinese and Pakistani low cost medicine products have been flooding the Vietnamese market, while Vietnamese brands have been unfavorable in the Vietnamese market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Yesterday inspectors of the HCM City Department of Health announced the conclusion of the inspection at the HCM City Orthopedic Trauma Hospital and Binh Dan Hospital.