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- Bắc Ninh: Hàng ngàn người về xem Hội Rước Pháo Làng Ðồng Kỵ
Hàng ngàn người từ các tỉnh lân cận và Hà Nội đã đổ về làng Ðồng Kỵ thuộc xã Ðồng Quan, Huyện Từ Sơn, tỉnh Bắc Ninh (cách Hà Nội chừng 50 km) để xem hội rước pháo truyền thống vào sáng Mùng 4 Tết.
- Baghdad: Nổ bom xe ngay khách sạn bộ trưởng, 4 người chết
- Báo "Thanh Niên" chọn chín vụ án lớn nhất Việt Nam trong năm 2003
- Bầu cử Tổng Thống Hoa Kỳ:
- Các chính phủ Á Châu đồng ý lập hệ thống theo dõi bệnh cúm gà
- Các chuyên gia thấy có tiến triển tốt trong cuộc đối đầu ở nhà tù Arizona
- Cán bộ lão thành tố cáo lãnh tụ Ðảng tham nhũng, không sửa sai
Một cán bộ cao cấp nghỉ hưu có 57 tuổi đảng lên tiếng tố cáo nhiều lãnh tụ Ðảng tham nhũng và chế độ Hà Nội làm nhiều điều sái quấy, hại dân nhưng không chịu sửa sai.
- Sáu quân nhân Phi Luật Tân bị thẩm vấn vì tố cáo Bộ Trưởng Quốc Phòng vi phạm tự do bầu cử
- Cựu Thanh Tra Kay: Tình báo Hoa Kỳ trước cuộc chiến Iraq là có lỗi lầm
- Dải Gaza: Giao chiến khiến có ít nhất chín người Palestine chết
- Dịch cúm gà xuất hiện ở Hà Nội và đã lan ra tới 31 tỉnh
- Hà Nội: Sông Hồng cạn nước trơ đáy
- Hà Sĩ Phu bị công an kiếm chuyện sau khi đi Hà Nội chữa bệnh
- Hoa Kỳ thả hơn 20 tù nhân từ nhà tù Guantanamo
- Hoa Kỳ thành lập “Văn Phòng Thông Tin Giáo Dục Hoa Kỳ” tại Sài Gòn
- Hospice growing in popularity
End-of-life care allows patients to spend their final days in comfort and dignity.
- The personal touch
- Diabetes on the rise among Asians
Exercise, diet can help to keep the disease away.
- Her Việt Nam
The women of the North so captivated photographer Nancy Hoàn Lê that she snapped 2,000 pictures of them. Now, she wants her images to inspire people to raise funds for a worthy cause.
- Her Việt Nam
The women of the North so captivated photographer Nancy Hoàn Lê that she snapped 2,000 pictures of them. Now, she wants her images to inspire people to raise funds for a worthy cause.
- Overcoming the fear and embarrassment
Cervical cancer, while common for Vietnamese American women, is curable if you get regular Pap tests. But that’s the problem: many Vietnamese women don’t.
- First fears, now a bit more calm
HÀ NỘI — Hương Lê heard the news about one neighbor from another. One person in this city’s central Đống Đa district had just died of avian flu, becoming Vietnam’s 42nd — and most recent — victim.
- When it comes to bird flu, fear isn't always rational
On my television screen, a doomsday voice intoned that the greatest threat to America wasn’t terrorism or nuclear weapons — but the person right next to you.
- Bay Area Asians part of growing drug problem
Methamphetamine, or 'meth,' is now the drug of choice of Asian Americans there.
- Speaking their language
Medical interpreters help patients to understand their diagnosis and treatment plan.
- Shattering the stigma
Painter Kiên Nguyễn found his inspiration when he was diagnosed with the illness. He shares his message — that HIV/AIDS patients aren’t to be feared — through his work.
- Shattering the stigma
Painter Kiên Nguyễn found his inspiration when he was diagnosed with the illness. He shares his message — that HIV/AIDS patients aren’t to be feared — through his work.
- HIV and AIDS in Viet Nam
16 years after the first case reached the country, Việt Nam is working to reduce the number of new infections. Among the most active are those who have the most to lose: those currently infected with HIV and AIDS.
- Getting through the day
Self-help groups are sufferers of HIV and AIDS who work to raise money and awareness and offer comfort to fellow patients.
- Eye doctor's vow: No vision left behind
While serving two tours with the U.S. Navy in Việt Nam, Tim Mendez saw enough devastation to last a lifetime.
- Family finds relief in chosen field of medicine
After seeing its effects on his nephew, Patrick Xuân Lê decided not to become a doctor and now works as a chiropractor.
- Hepatitis tests crucial for Vietnamese American
Groups run education campaigns to reach this at-risk population.
- While saving face, mental health suffers
One issue hits home, over and over, as the Virginia Tech tragedy unfolds — mental illness.
- Kids thirsty? Give them water
Despite a belief that people of Vietnamese descent rarely become overweight, Vietnamese American children — mainly from low-income families — are bucking the trend and gaining weight in greater proportions than ever before
- Speaking for her sister
A CSUF researcher is writing a book about Asian-American women and suicide
- Years later, still suffering?
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur after you have been through a traumatic event. During this type of event, you think that your life or others’ lives are in danger.
- Friends don't make you fat
A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that it’s not what you know but who you know that makes you obese.
- The journey of a breast-cancer patient
Images of the breast-cancer patient held under the reins of scrutinizing medical devices had a profound impact on me during my visit to the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona in December 2005.
- The disease doesn’t have to be kept in silence
It’s October, national Breast Cancer Awareness month. Perhaps you’ve noticed all the pink that manufacturers have brought out this month to call attention to and raise money for the disease.
- Dementia in Asian elders: madness, demons or loss of soul
SAN FRANCISCO — When elderly Hmong, Chinese or Vietnamese people become demented or chronically confused, family members attribute the condition to a normal part of the aging process, something they would have to live with. Admission to a long-term care facility is unthinkable because of the shame it would bring the family.
- Cancer can't stop pilot from flying patients who need help
Costa Mesa man hopes radiation treatments haven’t ruined
his volleyball career
- Cancer can't stop pilot from flying patients who need help
Costa Mesa man hopes radiation treatments haven’t ruined
his volleyball career
- Asian American plastic surgeon a favorite in California and abroad
Dr. Hugh Vũ, voted the top plastic surgeon in the Central Valley by San Joaquin Magazine readers for the past two years, hopes to make each patient a renewed person.
- Schwarzenegger's proposal would deny health care to many
SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of Californians could either lose or be denied health coverage under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget cuts, threatening the state’s already endangered health-care system and swelling the ranks of the uninsured.
- Out of grief comes help for others
The death of Nghĩa Trần encourages her daughter to push for a California law requiring hospitals to give families time for a final visit with a loved one.
- Bà Anna Nguyễn Thị Tịnh
- Không quân Joseph Bạch Ngọc Hòa
- Cụ Bà Bùi Tình
- Cựu SVSQ Cao Đức Thuần và Nguyễn Phước Hải
- Bạn Bạch Ngọc Hòa
- Ông Gioan Bosco Nguyễn Thượng Hiệp (Cảm Tạ)
- “The Oprah Winfrey Show” sẽ chấm dứt năm 2011
- Mùa Từ Thiện
Nói trắng ra là cộng đồng chúng ta vẫn còn nghèo, mà một phần lớn của cái nghèo đó là vì chúng ta đã và hiện vẫn còn đang “ăn cơm nhà” ở Hoa Kỳ, nhưng làm chuyện “vác ngà voi” ở Việt Nam.
- Mùa Từ Thiện
Nói trắng ra là cộng đồng chúng ta vẫn còn nghèo, mà một phần lớn của cái nghèo đó là vì chúng ta đã và hiện vẫn còn đang “ăn cơm nhà” ở Hoa Kỳ, nhưng làm chuyện “vác ngà voi” ở Việt Nam.
- Red Cross collecting holiday mail for troops
The American Red Cross Orange County Chapter is now collecting mail to send to the armed forces for Thanksgiving and Holiday season 2009. The Red Cross is attempting to put mail in the hands of military personnel and their families to thank them for their service.
- Supermodel search under way
Ford Models is looking for its next supermodel.
- High school counselor gets award
Huy Trần, a counselor at La Quinta High School in the Garden Grove Unified School District, is a recipient of the Yale University "Educator Award" for 2009.
- Diabetes attacking the very young in Việt Nam, experts warn
The incidence of diabetes among very young people in Việt Nam has increased significantly of late, and the country is among those with the fastest-growing rate of patients, an expert says.
- Fish sauce apparently not what it used to be
Around 90 percent of Phú Quốc fish sauce sold both locally and overseas is fake and of poor quality, the island’s fish sauce association said Sunday.
- Flight attendants accused of stealing passenger’s money
Việt Nam Airlines has suspended three flight attendants for allegedly stealing money from a passenger on a Sunday morning flight, the national carrier announced later the same day.
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Low-cost eye care for those with limited funds is available in Southern California through an optometry college and two groups working with the school’s doctors.
The Southern California College of Optometry in Fullerton provides vision checks and some treatments to those who qualify through its clinic, staffed by students supervised by their instructors, all licensed optometrists, said George Comer, SCCO associate professor and chief of Primary Eye Care Optometry Service.
Care is available to patients who are low income according to a sliding scale, he said.
Instead of providing eye checkups and basic vision care, the Southern California Lions Eye Institute focuses on expensive surgeries for people who cannot afford them, said William E. Heaton, Jr., SCCO’s vice president for advancement.
Low-income individuals get referrals to SCCO from the more than 300 Southern California Lions Clubs, and these patients can get complete eye care at low or no cost, he said.
The Foundation for the Preservation of Sight, an adjunct of SCCO, was started by Carling H. Childs, a board member of the college. While offering some surgery, it leans toward providing low-vision devices for people who have lost much of their sight, Heaton said.
When he realized that Medicare and some other insurance companies often do not cover eye care — including sometimes sight-saving surgery — for serious vision problems, Childs initiated the foundation to fill the gap.
Initially, he gave the college several laser units that could be used by college ophthalmologists for on-site surgeries. “This way the patients would receive surgical care and the students could observe first-hand surgical procedures which would better prepare them to explain options to their patients,” Heaton said. What a win-win deal.”
Southern California College of Optometry Fullerton clinic (714) 449-7401
Optometric Center of Los Angeles (323) 234-9137
Lions Club Eye Institute (800) 647-6638
Foundation for the Preservation of Sight (714) 449-7464 |