Medicine - Health
3-month-old brain is as complex as an adult's?
Although not yet able to speak, three-month-old babies already have a brain organized for language development. Thanks to magnetic resonance imaging, French researchers…
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Medicine - Health
Cure hepatitis B with herbs
The Military Region IV Hospital has been clinically testing the treatment of chronic hepatitis B with hepatic acupuncture powder containing hepaphyl of Central Pharmaceu…
Medicine - Health
Children and youth: The main target group for HIV / AIDS prevention
HIV / AIDS is spreading rapidly in East Asia and the Pacific. However, children and young people are not included in the regional HIV / AIDS prevention program.
Medicine - Health
Meningitis caused by meningococcus: Appears throughout the three regions
Not only in Kien Giang, Ho Chi Minh City, but in the past three months, the northern provinces have recorded hundreds of people with meningococcal meningitis. Amount of…
Medicine - Health
Dengue is at risk of outbreaks
At the conference on reviewing the prevention and control activities in the southern region in Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute said that dengue feve…
Medicine - Health
Fear comes from within the gene
Scientists have found the gene of fear - the gene that controls the production of a protein in the brain region associated with a fear response.
Cancer
Vietnamese science propagates precious forest plants that treat liver cancer
The leeches are abundant in natural forests in the Central-Highlands region. Since ancient trees were only considered as trees with low economic value, valuable medicina…
Cancer
Warning signs of ovarian cancer
Over the past few decades, the rate of ovarian cancer patients has increased significantly. In most cases, the disease is usually not detected early until it becomes ser…
Cancer
Russia: cases of thyroid cancer double
Cancer cases involving the thyroid gland will double in Briansk region, western Russia, from now until 2010, due to the effects of the Chernobyl atomic explosion in the…
Flu epidemic
H7 strain bird flu first appeared in Macau
On March 13, the government of the Special Administrative Region of Macau (China) said it had discovered for the first time the H7 bird flu virus in live poultry samples…
Flu epidemic
H1N1 flu broke out in the Mekong Delta
Within a month, the West region had at least 12 cases of positive for influenza A / H1N1 virus that killed 5 people. The health sector in the Mekong Delta provinces is u…
Flu epidemic
ASEAN establishes a stock of bird flu medicines
ASEAN member states have agreed to choose Singapore as a storage center for oseltamivir as an attempt to prepare for the possibility of bird flu in the region.
Flu epidemic
FAO: H5N1 can cause domino effect
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is concerned about a chain collapse effect once it is available
Flu epidemic
APEC wants to cooperate with bird flu
Leaders from 21 member countries and territories of the Asia-Pacific region called for a collaborative effort to prevent bird flu pandemic, which emphasized solidarity i…
Flu epidemic
APEC, Africa and the Middle East strengthen bird flu alert
Countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Africa and the Middle East have increased their alertness to bird flu after the deadly virus has recently been found in many Europe…