Medicine - Health
New technique to help learn about African sleeping sickness
A special genetic tracing technique is bringing new hope to explain why drug treatment is often ineffective for African sleeping sickness, a frightening tropical disease.
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Medicine - Health
Nutritious fruits of the tropics
There are tropical fruits that have very good health benefits that you have never heard of before like Acai palm nuts.
Medicine - Health
Death from influenza A / H1N1 infection during 37 weeks of pregnancy
Hospitalized for influenza A / H1N1 infection in pneumonia, severe respiratory failure. Although the doctors of Tropical Hospital (Ho Chi Minh City) are caring, but preg…
Medicine - Health
Human activity affects the change in rainfall
An international team of researchers, including Canadian Environment Ministry experts, for the first time confirmed in a report on the impact of human activity on the de…
Medicine - Health
Salt enrichment with drugs to help prevent tropical diseases
Although little is known, lymphatic worms are raging on millions of people by causing pus and other genitalia to have pus and swelling, the most common symptom of elepha…
Medicine - Health
Respirator for toxic gas?
Dust masks and toxic gas masks are the products of a state-level scientific research project conducted by Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center and Southern Branch. These two t…
Medicine - Health
Sky fruit - a gift of nature for human health
Sky fruit is the fruit of a tropical plant, growing much in the Solomons archipelago in the South Pacific region, where the air still retains its purity, not yet pollute…
Medicine - Health
Detection of cancer cure herbs, AIDS and malaria
Cancer-capable herbs, AIDS and malaria have been found in tropical forests in Borneo, according to a report by the World-Based WWF World Conservation Organization on Apr…
Cancer
Detects compounds in tropical plants that cure pancreatic cancer
German and Japanese scientists have discovered a compound called alkaloid alkystrolikokin E3 in tropical plants helps destroy pancreatic cancer cells and prevent them fr…
Antibiotic resistance
Vietnam has for the first time a reference laboratory for antibiotics
This laboratory was built with a budget of VND 60 billion, supported by the Fleming Fund and supported by the University of Oxford, UK Clinical Research Unit.
Food safety
How to distinguish durian ripe chemicals that few know
With natural durian, lightly pressing on the stalk will feel wet stalks, even the plastic is flowing out and fresh, new, hard green.
Flu epidemic
Vietnam has the first two cases of dengue fever with H1N1
Last week, there were 2 cases of hospitalization of national infectious and tropical diseases, tests that were positive for H1N1 flu, and had dengue fever.
Flu epidemic
Receiving many samples of suspected H5N1 virus
On June 6, at the meeting of the National Steering Committee for Avian Influenza Prevention and Control, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Duc Hien - Director of the National Inst…
Flu epidemic
Add a patient with influenza A / H5N1
Just one more patient in the North infected with influenza A / H5N1. This is also the second patient with the disease after 17 months of H5N1 virus in humans is controll…
Science invention
Water bag for Truong Sa
Rainwater bag for Truong Sa island district by the Institute of Tropical Technology and Research Environment has undergone a trial period, achieving good results.