Doctors remove meter-long tapeworm from Vietnamese man’s intestines
The patient said he usually eats rare beef that is not thoroughly cooked
Ho Chi Minh City doctors remove 6.3kg uterine fibroid from woman
The fibroid measured 40x50 centimeters and weighed 6.3 kilograms
Ho Chi Minh City doctors successfully separate twin girls with conjoined livers
The surgery was conducted when the girls reached one and a half months old and weighed 7.9 kilograms
Grandfather donates liver to 16-month-old boy in Vietnam's first
The liver transplant broke the country’s record in terms of age gap between the donor and recipient
Vietnamese toddler suffers severe poisoning after drinking rhino horn powder
Rhino horn powder is believed by many in Vietnam to have medicinal or even magical properties, while it does not
Doctors extract 40 liters of fluid from woman’s abdomen in Vietnam first
The patient suffers from an extremely rare disease that has never been recorded in the country before
Ho Chi Minh City doctors cure 13-yo girl of rare skin disorder
The disease has only been recorded on 72 patients, 38 of whom are children, across the world
American cornea donors give five Vietnamese patients gifts of sight
Dr. Edward Charles Kondrot brought the donated corneas all the way from the States to Vietnam, where successful transplant surgeries were done for five local patients
Doctor suspended for purportedly fleecing patients in Ho Chi Minh City
In his report, he admitted to pocketing about VND29 million (US$1,247) from three patients
Vietnam doctors successfully treat girl suffering two rare genetic diseases
She is possibly the first pediatric patient in the world who is diagnosed with both diseases at the same time