Tag: "illness"
Many older adults underestimate severity of RSV despite high risks: survey

Many older adults underestimate severity of RSV despite high risks: survey

World 11:30 16/11/2025

More than 40 percent of adults aged 50 and older with certain chronic health conditions underestimate their personal risk of severe illness from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, even as the virus causes millions of infections each year, according to a global survey released during RSV Awareness Week.

​Vietnamese physician dedicated to helping poor patients, students

​Vietnamese physician dedicated to helping poor patients, students

Travel 18:54 06/08/2018

‘If patients can overcome their illness and lead a normal life again, that’s just enough to make me happy. I don’t expect anything other than that in my life’

Terminally ill dancer’s comeback on "So You Think You Can Dance"

Terminally ill dancer’s comeback on "So You Think You Can Dance"

Travel 10:27 26/06/2013

Audience members at the audition round of the second season of the Vietnamese version of “So You Think You Can Dance”, which ran from June 21 to 24, were overjoyed to see Hoa Duc Cong, a prize-winning young dancer who is struggling with devastating renal failure.