35 patients with internal hemorrhoid of II, III, IV grade were treated by simple technique in a short duration and thourough operation without complicate equiments, the traditional formule “kho tri tan E” in combining with Vietnamese traditional herbal medicines gave preliminary satisfied efficacy through the evaluation of 2 main criteria of treatment as bleeding severity and the fall of hemorrhoid knot. Before the treatment, 100% of patients had got bleeding of diverse levels. After the treatment, there was 14.3% of patients still had got mild bleeding. In 100% of treated cases, the whole of hemorrhoid knots falled down. No complication occurred.
Medicine, Traditional ; Therapeutics ; Hemorrhoids

After a 4 weeks of treatment by propyl thyouracil, the biochemical indices of Basedow disease had changed obviously: triiodothyronin (T3) high level (7.95 ± 1.58 nmol/l before treatment) had increased dramatically (1.98 ± 0.54 nmol/l), total thyroxin (T4) high level (257.56 ± 47.45 nmol/l before treatment) had decreased dramatically (1278.04 ± 10.82 nmol/l). FT4 serum level high level had decreased after treatment. TSF low level before treatment had increased. But after treatment glucose level had increased unsignificantly versus that before. In severe condition blood cholesterol had increased, but in moderate and mild condition, there was no change.
Blood ; Therapeutics ; Graves Disease

In ThaiNguyen Central General Hospital some cerebro-vascular complications were studied. Common risk factors leading to complications were: Hypertension with the highest incidence of 78,5%, lipidemia disorder 53,9%, alcoholism 26,9%, tabagism 21,4%, catching a cold 16,4%, transient ischaemia 14,8%, familly factors10,9%, heart diseases 8,2%, stress 5,4% and diabetes 3,8%.
Risk Factors ; Stroke/complications ; Hypertension ; Hyperlipidemias ; Alcoholism ; Heart Diseases

Two spectices of health Rabbit weighing 1,8-2,5 kg were descriptive in comparing before and after studying. Oral administration with "thap toan dai bo" pills- a traditional medicine, in experimental showed that the pill haft an effect to vary some biochemical indices of rabbit. However these variation did not influence on the normal metabolism of the animal as well as on the biochemical function, for instance in glucose with the comparative coefficients of P>0,05, proted P>0,05 and some other indices of chlolesterol, triglycerid… with P>0,05. These comparative coefficient had not statistical significance.
Study on the changes of biochemical index in rabbit blood before and after receiving "Thap toan dai bo" tab

In October 2002, a study was carried out in 2 communes Dan Tien and Cuc Duong, Vo Nhai district, Thai Nguyen province, concerning the knowledge and practice of reproductive health care in married womens, aged 15-49 years old. Almost pregnant women were aware that it takes 3 times to frequent the maternal clinics, to give breast feeding early immediately after child birth, and the breast feeding prolonged enough. However, in practice, only 75.6% and 78.1% in 2 above mentioned communes respectively. Pregnant women underwent the pregnancy examination and had got 3 times enough to get examination in the whole their pregnant period. 50% and 52% pregnant women had been given antitetanic infection in their pregnant period. 46% and 31% had had proper breast feeding, 84.7% and 61.3% gave birth in state health institutions.
Knowledge ; Reproduction ; Delivery of Health Care ; Women ; Age Factors

The study was conducted on 593 children, 325 salt samples, 60 urinary samples and 30 fresh water samples, using the descriptive epidemiological method. Ca, Na, K, Cl, Cyanide, Fl, Cu, Pb and Iode contents were quantified. The data was processed by statistic method. The results showed that Ca and Fl contents were within acceptable limit. Iode was provided sufficiently. The content of cyanide, an anti-thyroid agent, was higher than acceptable limit
Goiter ; Chemistry ; water ; epidemiology

An investigation were carried out in 642 families and 51 water samples. The results: number of used mine-water families occupied high rate 77,24%. The CN content in drinking water source is 7,14+/- 1,9, 10 times higher than this the limited standard, the rate of goiter : 53,91%, the rate of goiter: among the used mine- water family is higher 2,28 times than this of the families does not use mine- water.
Water ; Goiter ; environment

Background: Japanese Encephalitis (JE) is common in the plains and mountainous areas in Asia \u2013 Pacific. Japanese encephalitis vaccine shows effectiveness in protecting children from JE in some countries such as Japan and Korea. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) vaccination in Thai Binh province during 2003-2007. Subject and Method: Prospective, retrospective and sero-epidemiological methods were carried out on 329 samples collected from viral encephalitis patients and tested by JE MAC-ELISA, the positive average was 41.6% (137/329). Result: It had dramatically dropped from 85.2% in 2003 to 8.5 % in 2007 related to the rate of JE vaccination for children from 1 to 5 years old increasing from 49 % in 2003 to 77 % in 2007. Most of JE confirmed cases were un-vaccinated. Conclusion: JE etiology cause viral encephalitis in children in Thai Binh province was reduced thanks to JE vaccination in EPI program for 1 to 5 year old children. But more than 96% (131/136) of viral encephalitis in 15 years old upward was unknown etiology, the need for further study of the etiology cause viral encephalitis in adults.
Japanese encephalitis ; virus encephalitis ; MAC-ELISA ; Vaccine

Papiliotrema huenov was previously reported to be highly tolerant of a range of extremely toxic heavy metals. This study aimed to identify the potential of P. huenov to remove manganese and copper from aqueous solution. Physical conditions which affect removal of Mn(II) and Cu(II) were determined. Optimal temperature for adsorption of both metal ions was 30°C, and optimal pH for maximum uptake of Mn(II) and Cu(II) were 5 and 6, respectively. Under these conditions, living cells of P. huenov accumulated up to 75.58% of 110 mg/ L Mn(II) and 70.5% of 128 mg/L Cu(II) over 120 h, whereas, the removal efficiency of metal ions by dead cells over 1 h was 60.3% and 56.5%, respectively. These results indicate that living cells are more effective than dead biomass for bioremediation, but that greater time is required. The experimental data extends the potential use of P. huenov in biosorption and bioaccumulation of toxic heavy metals to copper and manganese, two of the most common industrial contaminants.

Artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) is a perennial plant belonging to the Asteraceae family originating from the Mediterranean region. In Vietnam, there are some varieties of artichoke which are extensively cultivated and propagated in highland areas, however, there have been limited detailed scientific publications on the chemical composition and biological activity of artichoke grown in Vietnam. Therefore, this study provides a detailed description of the extraction, isolation, and structural determination of 20 natural secondary metabolites present in harvested artichoke. The antioxidant activity of the extract and the 9 isolated compounds are tested in 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging and ex vivo malondialdehyde model. Among the selected compounds, 1-caffeoylquinic acid, 3-caffeoylquinic acid, chlorogenic acid, 4-caffeoylquinic acid, cynarin, 1,5-dicaffeoylquinic acid, 4,5-di-caffeoylquinic acid, cynaroside, and scolymoside exhibited strong radical scavenging activity with IC50 values ranging from 5.7 to 61.6 µM. In the malondialdehyde assay, 1,3-dicaffeoylquinic acid (or cynarin) showed the strongest activity with an IC50 value of 24.7 µM, followed by 1,5-di-caffeoylquinic acid (66.8 µM), and 4,5-di-caffeoylquinic acid (127.3 µM). This outcome contributes to establishing a database on the phytochemical and antioxidant activity of the Vietnamese artichoke.