Health worker dismissed

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VietNam News English 1 week(s) ago

A health worker from a clinic run by the Ha Noi Centre for Preventive Medicine was dismissed for retaining half a vaccine shot while injecting a baby last month.

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WHO to probe Quinvaxem deaths in Vietnam

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WHO to probe Quinvaxem deaths in Vietnam

A baby is vaccinated in Hanoi. Photo by Ngoc Thang

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Vietnam halts use of Quinvaxem after 9 babies die in 6 months

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Vietnam halts use of Quinvaxem after 9 babies die in 6 months

A dose from this Quinvaxem batch was administered to 4-month-old boy Dinh Ngo Ngoc Vuong Anh in Da Lat on March 15, a day before he died. Photo courtesy of Tuoi Tre

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Flu infection on the rise in Vietnam

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Flu infection on the rise in Vietnam

According to the Center for Preventive Medicine in the northern province of Lao Cai, five of the patients who contracted A/H1N1 Flu virus in Quang Kim Commune in Bat Xat District are showing positive signs of recovery after receiving treatment at the General Hospital.

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Kindergarten suspected of drugging children

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Kindergarten suspected of drugging children

VietNamNet Bridge – A mother in HCM City has denounced a local kindergarten teacher for using sleeping pills on her two-year-old child.

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Kindergarten suspected of drugging children

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Kindergarten suspected of drugging children

A mother in HCM City has denounced a local kindergarten teacher for using sleeping pills on her two-year-old child.

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Vietnam bans import of Dextromethorphan laced cough syrups

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Vietnam bans import of Dextromethorphan laced cough syrups

After a warning from the World Health Organization on serious health repercussions, often leading to deaths, from Pakistan-made cough syrups, the Vietnam Pharmaceutical Administration has placed a ban on the import of two of these cough medicines.

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Deadly Pakistani cough syrup

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Deadly Pakistani cough syrup

The Health Ministry’s Drug Administration of Vietnam has released a warning calling for precaution against two kinds of Pakistan-made cough medicine that have caused 60 deaths in their country of manufacture.

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Waste firm agrees to cough up damages

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Waste firm agrees to cough up damages

The Sonadezi Long Thanh Company confirmed that it would pay the entire compensation it owed farmers in the southern province of Dong Nai yesterday, local officials announced.

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Waste firm agrees to cough up damages

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Waste firm agrees to cough up damages

The Sonadezi Long Thanh Company confirmed that it would pay the entire compensation it owed farmers in the southern province of Dong Nai yesterday, local officials announced.

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Breakfast @ Tuoitrenews – Jan. 17

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Breakfast @ Tuoitrenews – Jan. 17

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Child deaths set off vaccine panic

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VietNam News English 4 month(s) ago 1 related news

Child deaths set off vaccine panic

The vaccine Quinvaxem "5 in 1" has been removed from circulation in many areas in Ha Noi, Deputy Director of the municipal Preventive Medicine Centre Nguyen Nhat Cam said on Monday.

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iPen 2 will let you write on your iMac or iPad

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iPen 2 will let you write on your iMac or iPad

The makers of the original iPen are trying to top their creation with a new stylus that supports both the iMac and the iPad.

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Three children die after vaccination

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VietNam News English 5 month(s) ago

The Ministry of Health is investigating the deaths of three three -month-old children in central Nghe An Province after vaccination, Professor Nguyen Tran Hien, director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemilogy, said on Wedneday.

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Immunization Program to include measles, rubella vaccines for children

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Immunization Program to include measles, rubella vaccines for children

Vietnam plans to include measles and rubella vaccines in the National Program for Immunization, after studies showed that the number of under one-year-old children requiring vaccination had reached more than 90 percent.

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