A hepatitis patient receives treatment at Bach Mai Hospital.(Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Health experts have called on the Health Ministry to add direct-acting antiviral Agents (DAAs) into list of drugs that public health insurance covers so patients with Hepatitis C are treated more effectively. DAAs or new combinations of drugs directly target the hepatitis C virus in different ways to stop it making copies of itself. DAAs promise shorter treatment times, much higher cure rates and fewer side effects. Assistance Professor Dr Do Duy Cuong, head of Infection Department under Bach Mai Hospital, spoke about the new medicine at a July 24 meeting marking World Hepatitis Day (July 28). Cuong said that currently, there were 50 types of DAAs and the cure rate reached up to 95 percent. However, cost treatment using DAAs was high while public health insurance participants did not have health insurance pay for the medicine, Cuong said, adding that 90 percent of patients with … [Read more...] about Health insurance should cover new medicine for Hepatitis C patients
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Public health insurance should pay new medicine for Hepatitis C patients
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Health experts have called on the Health Ministry to add direct-acting antiviral Agents (DAAs) into list of drugs that public health insurance covers so patients with Hepatitis C are treated more effectively. DAAs or new combinations of drugs directly target the hepatitis C virus in different ways to stop it making copies of itself. DAAs promise shorter treatment times, much higher cure rates and fewer side effects. Assistance Professor Dr Đỗ Duy Cường, head of Infection Department under Bạch Mai Hospital, spoke about the new medicine yesterday at a meeting marking World Hepatitis Day (July 28). Cường said that currently, there were 50 types of DAAs and the cure rate reached up to 95 per cent. However, cost treatment using DAAs was high while public health insurance participants did not have health insurance pay for the medicine, Cường said, adding that 90 per cent of patients with Hepatitis … [Read more...] about Public health insurance should pay new medicine for Hepatitis C patients
Vietnamese doctors team up with foreign experts to develop new leukemia treatment
By Le Phuong  May 10, 2018 | 07:51 am GMT+7 Vietnamese doctor Le Nguyen Xuan Truong (2nd, L) with acclaimed hematologist Guido Marcucci (R) and other partners in the new cancer research. Photo by VnExpress The research team have discovered a more effective treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia. Researchers from Vietnam and their international colleagues have developed a new treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia, according to Nature Medicine. The new treatment developed by doctors from the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Biotechnology and their counterparts from China, the United Kingdom and the United States was published in the pretigious medical journal two months ago. Le Nguyen Xuan Truong from the Ho Chi Minh City center said that drug resistance and relapses are common among chronic myelogenous leukemia patients, even when they are treated with first-line medicine. He said that researchers are trying to bring this new treatment back to … [Read more...] about Vietnamese doctors team up with foreign experts to develop new leukemia treatment
Vietnam threatened by new strain of bird flu
VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister and ministries of Health and Agriculture and Rural Development are calling for intensive measures to curb the trafficking, trade and consumption of unknown poultry, especially birds smuggled from China, where avian influenza A (H7N9) continues to spread. People join a drill held in northern Lang Son Province to destroy suspected poultry with H7N9 virus. — VNA/VNS Photo The Preventive Medicine Department under the health ministry announced Wednesday that the avian influenza A (H7N9) is spreading rapidly south and southeast China, including Yunnan and Guangxi provinces--which both share borders with Viet Nam. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) detected changes of H7N9 virus from low pathogenicity to high pathogenicity in poultry and humans. WHO found H7N9 virus with high pathogenicity in two patients in Guangdong and Taiwan. FAO found high pathogenicity of H7N9 in 41 poultry samples. … [Read more...] about Vietnam threatened by new strain of bird flu
An Giang Border Province: New Vitality
Vast fertile fields, bustling and crowded towns, trucks loaded with goods containers passing one after another through the border gate, ships and boats transporting passengers from/to Vietnam and Cambodia doing business or visiting one another, are common daily activities of a peaceful life full of friendship seen in Vietnam’s southern An Giang border province. Strength of the border region We visited the border province of An Giang in southern Vietnam in the spring 2017. Along the roads leading to the border gate with the neighbouring country of Cambodia, there are communes and small hamlets residing peacefully near fertile vast fields and rows of palm trees - typical images of this southwestern region. Chau Doc city, located about 25km from the border with Cambodia, is seen as the main town of the An Giang border region. The city is significant in terms of economy, trade and tourism, attracting over four million domestic and foreign visitors to visit for sight-seeing, … [Read more...] about An Giang Border Province: New Vitality