The concept of nutraceutical food was introduced firstly in United State in 1989 by Stephen Defelice, the founder of the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine. It is defined as a product that considered as a food or a part of food, provided medical or health benefits, including disease prevention and treatment”. The health sector should review and re-evaluate the importance and potential of the nutraceutical food market and plan the development strategy for this novel avenue. The unique definition of nutraceutical product is needed. The Ministry of Health should direct the management of these products as medications rather than foods and the regulations of registration, labeling and take testing samples should be available
Food ; Dietary Supplements ; Comment [Publication Type

The strategy of pharmaceutical industry for 2002 - 2010 period” that was approved by Primer Minister mentioned to the need of build-up priority policies for businesses which have invested to researching, developing and innovating the pharmaceutical technology, encouraging the use of generic drug and medications made in Vietnam. An authority for nationwide regulating the medication price should be established as soon as possible. The Drug Management Administration should play more active role as a bridge between manufacturers, prescribers and patients. The national manufacturers should consider employing international experts to approach and learn their experiences and management models as well as acquaint with regulations in GMP. Out-state drug quality surveillance should be available
Adjuvants, Pharmaceutic ; Drug Industry ; Technology, Pharmaceutical

In recent years the pharmaceutical industry of Viet Nam have had important advancement. Viet Nam have the fourth largest pharmaceutical market in South East Asia region with the average growing rate at third. It is estimated that the pharmaceutical market of Viet Nam will achieve 677 millions USD by 2005. From now to 2005 the pharmaceutical companies of Viet Nam should only focus on manufacturing forms of generic drugs, direct to invest and research new products and be soon active in changing the product strategy which based on export trend and specific demand of regional market
Drug Industry ; Public Opinion ; Pharmaceutical Preparations

A retrospective study was carried out on 120 patients with brain abscess treated at Cho Ray Hospital from Oct 2000 to Feb 2003. 91% patients were hospitalized on emergency. The patients were diagnosed easily and quickly brain abscess by CT. 80 patients (70.8%) underwent emergency surgeries and the commonest applied technique (73.3%) was punction and pus drainage. Antibiotic were indicated suitably for patients, corticoids were prescribed for 31.6% patients with severe brain edema, antiepileptic drugs were given for patients with convulsions. Twelve patients (10%) died because of too late hospitalizations with general complications and/or brain hernia. Patients with brain abscess were commonly arrived late; the majority of them were admitted on emergency. Although having CT for accurate diagnosis and surgery and new antibiotic generations, the mortality rate is still high
Brain Abscess ; Therapeutics ; Surgery

We conducted a retrospective study on the medical records of patients with traffic accidents in Viet Duc Hospital. Results showed that the mortality rate and traffic accident were increasingly with development of socioeconomy. The mortality rate related with traffic accident was the same as this in Egypt. Most of them were men and ages of 24-45. Motorbike was most frequent cause of traffic accident. The rate of helmet using was low.
Accidents, Traffic ; Wounds and Injuries

We conducted a study on 45 patients treated in the rehabilitation facilities after 2 years of cerebrocranial injuries due to weapon, traffic accident, with average ages of 33. Results have shown that there was close relation between the psychological condition and drug addiction before cerebrocranial injuries. The psychological condition and drug addiction related closely with the posttraumatic unemployment and dependent life. There was a relation between supportive level of society and patient's and their family's behaviors.
Rehabilitation ; Wounds and Injuries

The cerebrovacular malformation mainly comprised arteriovenous fistula and cerebral aneurysm and usually occurred clinically stroke due to the bleeding, vascular rupture or aneurysm rupture. There were numerous patients with cerebrovascular malformation that undiagnosed because of no bleeding or unhospitalization. It was remain controversial problem that it should where be early operated or not to prevent from vasoconstriction.
Cerebrovascular Accident ; therapeutics

The surgeries were performed on a total of 1,560 eyes-918 eyes (58.85%) undergone extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE); ECCE with posterior chamber IOL Implantantion. Common complication consist of : vitreous issue in 96 eyes (6.15%), striate keratitis in 282 eyes (18.07%), transient uveal reaction in 325 eyes (20.83%), cortical residue in the periphery in 196 eyes (12.56%) endophthalmitis in 6 eyes (0.38%), IOL luxation in 29 eyes (5.35%) and secondary increased intraocular pressure in 6 eyes, secondary opacification of posterior capsule in 97 eyes (6.22%).
Lenses, Intraocular ; complications

The drug price is being a consideration of the community. In situation of unstable drug price, the state should promulgate a national policy for drug price to normalize the drug price and pharmaceutical market. This paper introduced 3 major orientations to contribute to construction of policy of drug price and solutions for implementing this policy.
Public Policy ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Commerce

Our research was carried out on 133 occupational carbon monoxide exposed workers in a metallurgical factory. The results showed that carbon monoxide concentration in some working places was higher than the allowance limit from 1.4 to 5.3 times. 77.2% indoor environment was polluted by substances coming from factory. This pollution had influenced on the health of 35.3% of workers (influence on nervous, circulatory, respiratory, digestive systems and anemia,..) 16.5% of the cases suffered from occupational carbon monoxide chronic clinical poisoning. The occupational acute carbon monoxide poisoned anamnesis at the factory was 7.3%.
Carbon Monoxide ; manpower