The workshop will help heal the pain for veterans through music and dance therapy - Photo: Courtesy of organizer The workshop will be led by Bui Tuyet Minh and Bryan Charles Wilson. Minh is a movement therapist who graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and has been a pioneer of dance and movement therapy in Vietnam since 2015, while Wilson is an American cellist, composer, music educator, and author of the famous book “Cello Chords”. Minh and Wilson will introduce dance and movement therapy approach accompanied by music for veterans living with cancer or agent orange consequences, and share some music and traditional dance, which will help heal the pain they are suffering from the war and illness to find meaning again in their life. Dance and movement therapy is an effective way to address physical, cognitive, social, and emotional symptoms affecting the veterans. In dance, there are elements of poetry, music, drama, and all these art forms will be applied in a healing … [Read more...] about American Center offers workshop on music therapy for veterans
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Conference highlights Japanese vaccine therapy for cancers
Dr Kenichiro Hasumi discusses the Human Initiated Therapeutic Vaccine Therapy, a technique he pioneered to treat cancers, with Vietnamese doctors at a conference titled Vaccine Hasumi- immunotherapy for Cancers at the Gia An 115 Hospital in HCM City. — Photo courtesy of the Gia An 115 Hospital Cancer treatment has seen great progress with advanced technologies being adopted around the world in recent years. In immunotherapy too, many kinds of medicines have been developed. CAR-T immunotherapy has much attention from the scientific community. Human Initiated Therapeutic Vaccine (HITV) Therapy is a technique developed in Japan through ICVS Tokyo Clinic’s unique protocol. It utilizes dendritic cells and activated memory T-cells collected and induced from a patient’s blood, Japan’s Dr Kenichiro Hasumi who has done research into cancer vaccines, said. His research for more than 40 years has been focusing on immunotherapy for cancer. In 14 years since HITV was … [Read more...] about Conference highlights Japanese vaccine therapy for cancers
Free physical therapy provided to disabled at home in HCMC
Paralyzed left side of his body because of Cerebrovascular accident, a 75 year old Nguyen Binh Thanh in district 4 needed assistance to sit up. Three months ago, medical workers of the HCMC Hospital for Rehabilitation - Professional Diseases provided physical therapy at his house. Three medical workers took turns to help him during rehabilitation after he was diagnosed to suffer physical impairment, Thanh said. His condition was improved much later. He is able to feel where is itchy and numb, and his stretching activities are better. More importantly, medical workers who encouraged him to walk gradually gave him the belief that he can recover. He feels grateful to medical workers who have assisted and encouraged him. Similarly, the condition of 57-year-old Nguyen Thi Thuy in district 6 improves much after three month practice of physical therapy provided gratis by the hospital’s medical workers. After she suffered stroke, she had to pay VND 200,000 a day for physical therapy … [Read more...] about Free physical therapy provided to disabled at home in HCMC
Medical supervision vital for IV therapy
Intravenous therapy is a popular medical technique but can pose risks, even fatal ones. — VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng HảiViet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Patients taking intravenous therapy must strictly follow their doctor’s prescription to minimise possible side effects, doctors affirmed after recent tragedies have illustrated the dangers of intravenous medicines. Most recently, on October 16, a 22-month-old baby in Yên Thường Commune in Hà Nội’s Gia Lâm District died after having an intravenous drip at a private clinic in Long Biên District. Before being taken to the clinic, the baby suffered from diarrhea and fever. Within only five minutes of starting intravenous therapy, the baby showed signals of anaphylactic shock. Nguyễn Quang Trung, head of the private healthcare management division under Hà Nội’s Heath Department, said that the clinic was not licensed to provide the intravenous … [Read more...] about Medical supervision vital for IV therapy
Nobel Prize in Medicine for Cancer Therapy: US, Japanese duo win it
Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research into how the body's natural defences can fight cancer, the jury said yesterday. Unlike more traditional forms of cancer treatment that directly target cancer cells, Allison and Honjo figured out how to help the patient's own immune system tackle the cancer more quickly. The award-winning discovery led to treatments targeting proteins made by some immune system cells that act as a "brake" on the body's natural defences killing cancer cells. The Nobel Assembly said after announcing the prize in Stockholm that the therapy "has now revolutionised cancer treatment and has fundamentally changed the way we view how cancer can be managed". In 1995, Allison was one of two scientists to identify the CTLA-4 molecule as an inhibitory receptor on T-cells. T-cells are a type of white blood cell that play a central role in the body's natural immunity to disease. Allison, … [Read more...] about Nobel Prize in Medicine for Cancer Therapy: US, Japanese duo win it