Vietnam frets as birthrates go low in some localities

Vietnamese hospitals are teeming with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the chances of infection rise with a patient’s length of stay, a study found.

Given the high rate of diabetics in Vietnam, treatment costs for the disease are expected to soar to $1.1 billion by 2025.

Vietnam has culled two million pigs infected with African swine fever as the virus continues to spread, the agriculture minister said.

Soc Trang and Kien Giang in the Mekong Delta are the two latest localities where African swine fever has been detected in Vietnam.

Two more southern provinces, Binh Duong and An Giang, have reported outbreaks of African swine fever.

Khanh Hoa, home to the popular beach town Nha Trang, has become the latest province in Vietnam to report African swine fever.

Alabama’s state Senate passed a bill Tuesday to outlaw nearly all abortions, creating exceptions only to protect the mother’s health.

Government workers in Thua Thien-Hue Province have been told not to use plastic water bottles or plastic bags at the workplace.

A Thua Thien-Hue health center was overrun on Wednesday by people trying to register for on-demand vaccine shots for their children.

Malawi on Tuesday rolled out the world's first licensed malaria vaccine in a landmark campaign against a disease that each year kills hundreds of thousands of people, especially African children.

Falling vaccination rates in Vietnam could destroy herd immunity and cause eradicated diseases to return, health officials warned.

The world’s recyclable plastic is being shipped to Asia where it is illegally dumped, buried or burned in the country with the lightest regulations.

With temperatures soaring to 37 degrees Celsius, Saigon hospitals are seeing a rise in children and elderly patients.