health

Climate change factors should be included on death certificates to show relation between environment and health: Experts

May 22, 2020 | 15:29

BANGKOK: Death certificates should include information about climate change factors, including severe heat and air pollution, so as to increase understanding of how the environment is adversely affecting health, Australian medical scientists have argued.

Revenues plummet amid global health emergency

May 14, 2020 | 08:00

Unprecedented public health challenges have crimped a hefty sum of profits of both foreign-invested enterprises and domestic counterparts.

Japan approves Ebola drug remdesivir for COVID-19 treatment

May 08, 2020 | 08:52

TOKYO: Japan on Thursday (May 7) authorised the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat coronavirus patients, the government said, with an eye to approving another medication Avigan this month.

Vietnam children back at school after 3-month coronavirus break

May 05, 2020 | 08:31

HANOI: Millions of schoolchildren in Vietnam returned to class on Monday (May 4) after the country reported its 17th straight day of no domestically transmitted coronavirus infections.

AirX Coffee Face Masks introduced to Vietnamese consumers 1

April 07, 2020 | 19:05

Shoe X has recently launched AirX Coffee Face Mask to help fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and protect the environment.

Ford partners GE Healthcare to produce 50,000 ventilators to fight off coronavirus

April 03, 2020 | 21:19

Ford and GE Healthcare will produce an FDA-cleared, third-party ventilator, with the output of 50,000 units within 100 days and 30,000 a month thereafter.

Vietnam and Germany join hands to fight against coronavirus

March 31, 2020 | 18:18

Vietnamese and German medical experts are promoting co-operation to defeat coronavirus

World leaders to hold crisis talks as COVID-19 toll tops 21,000

March 27, 2020 | 09:42

World leaders are to hold online crisis talks Thursday (Mar 26) on the coronavirus pandemic that has forced three billion people into lockdown and claimed more than 21,000 lives.

Various movements showcased in response to health emergency

March 16, 2020 | 16:50

Last week the world stepped up its efforts to control and contain the coronavirus outbreak, which has so far infected over 145,000 people and claimed 5,500 lives. With different levels of financial levers at their disposal, countries and territories are demonstrating the varying methods that can be deployed in order to win the COVID-19 battle.