NDO – Vietnam has successfully carried out over 750 stem cell transplants for treatment of blood diseases in the last decade. 

NDO/VNA – Developing grassroots healthcare to prevent non-infectious diseases is the top task of the health-population target programme for 2016-2020, according to Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien. 

NDO – The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has given the nod to Lam Dong Pharmaceutical JSC to deploy a project on medicinal plant planting in Lac Duong district with a total investment of VND50.72 billion (nearly US$2.2 million). 

NDO/VNA – The first breast milk bank in the south of Vietnam became operational at the Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City on April 10. 

NDO/VNA – The Ly Thai To Statue Square in downtown Hanoi was bustling with activities marking World Health Day 2019 on April 7. 

NDO – The Vietnamese health sector plans a range of activities for the upcoming days in response to World Health Day, which falls on April 7 each year, announced the Ministry of Health (MoH) on April 4. 

NDO – The Hanoi’s Vietnam - Germany Friendship Hospital has officially mastered the technique of awake brain surgery after carrying out two surgeries under the method with support from foreign experts. 

NDO - The general clinic of the branch of Bach Mai Hospital in Phu Ly city, Ha Nam province, has officially begun operations, receiving more than 600 patients on the opening day on March 25. 

NDO – After reducing its ranking from 12th to 16th in terms of the number of people suffering from tuberculosis (TB) in the last five years, Vietnam is gathering nearly enough elements to end the disease by 2030. 

NDO – The Ministry of Health and the National Anti-Tuberculosis (TB) Programme organised a meeting in Hanoi on March 23 in response to World TB Day (March 24), reviewing five years of implementing the national TB control strategy and launching a national action plan to end TB by 2030. 

NDO/VNA - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam urged medical facilities nationwide to step up preventive health care services and ensure adequate vaccines to prevent the spread of epidemics such as measles and dengue fever. 

NDO/VNA – The ninth International Congress of the Asia-Pacific Society of Infection Control (APSIC) opened in the central city of Da Nang on March 20. 

NDO – The first national traditional medicine and pharmaceutical products fair 2019 kicked off at the Centre of Exhibition, Economics and Commercial Transactions, No 489 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Hanoi, on March 20. 

NDO – When Dr. Nguyen Hoa Anh returned home after 15 years of studying and teaching in Japan, he did not imagine that he would encroach on molecular biology one day, with practical products containing billions of "made in Vietnam" spore probiotics.