2010-01-20 Study Adds to Understanding of Language and the Brain
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study of the brain is helping scientists better understand how humans process language. The study is being done in San…
2010-01-13 Health: Now, an Update on Those New Year’s Resolutions
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. People who stop smoking often replace cigarettes with food. A new study says the weight they gain may increase their diabetes risk…
2010-01-06 How Loneliness Can Infect Social Networks
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Loneliness has been linked to depression and other health problems. Now, a study says it can also spread. A friend of a…
2009-12-30 Slow and Gentle Are Best in Treating Hypothermia
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We talked last week about ways to avoid cold-weather injuries. Today we are going to talk about emergency treatment of hypothermia. Hypothermia…
2009-12-16 Study Finds Treatment Cured Sickle Cell in 9 Adults
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last week, researchers in the United States reported curing nine adults with sickle cell disease. Ten patients in all were treated in…
2009-12-02 Experts Say as AIDS Epidemic Changes, So Should Prevention Efforts
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tuesday was World AIDS Day, and the latest report on the epidemic provided some reason to celebrate. Experts say new H.I.V. infections…
2009-12-09 ‘Gelotophobia’ Is No Laughing Matter
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Shy people often avoid situations that force close contact with other people. They worry that something they say or do will make…
2009-11-25 Screening for Breast, Cervical Cancer: The New Advice
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Sometimes new health advice conflicts with old advice. Yet new guidelines last week for breast cancer testing in the United States created…
2009-11-18 Debate Over New Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. On Monday, an influential group of medical experts released new guidelines on testing for breast cancer. The guidelines are from the United…
2009-11-11 Vaccine Shortage a Concern in Fight Against H1N1
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. H1N1 flu continues to spread. Currently the virus is most active in the northern half of the world. But experts say it…
2009-11-04 US to End HIV Travel Ban in January
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In nineteen eighty-seven, H.I.V./AIDS joined a list of diseases that could keep a person out of the United States. The government later…
2009-10-29 Almost Half of All Deaths Are in People Under 60
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study from the World Health Organization says fifty-nine million people died from all causes in two thousand four. Ten million…
2009-10-28 A Test for Brain Injury Creates Its Own Risks in Children
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A concussion happens when the brain is shaken, often in a car crash or a fall or a strike to the head…
2009-10-21 Punishment or Reward: Which Works Better on Behavior?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Two recent studies have found that punishment is not the best way to influence behavior. One showed that adults are much more…
2009-10-14 Leprosy: An Old Disease That Claimed a New Saint
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Pope Benedict named five new saints on Sunday, including a Catholic clergyman who cared for people in a leper colony. Father Damien…