2008-12-03 Study Looks at Mental Disorders in College-Age Adults
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study in the United States says mental disorders appear to be common in college-age adults, but most do not seek…
2008-11-26 Feeling No Pain: The World of Anesthesia
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Anesthesia is used during operations and other medical procedures to block pain signals from traveling through the nervous system. The kind of…
2008-11-19 Health: Keeping Ears Clean
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Some people’s ears produce wax like busy little bees. This can be a problem even though earwax appears to serve an important…
2008-11-12 Obama Team Reviews Bush’s Order on Stem Cells
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., is home to the National Institutes of Health. N.I.H. calls itself “the Nation’s Medical Research Agency.” But…
2008-10-22 Colds, Flu and Folk Advice
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Autumn and winter are cold and flu season — when people are most likely to catch the viruses that cause influenza and…
2008-10-15 Hand Washing: So Important, It Gets a Day Of Its Own
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Wednesday, October fifteenth, is the first Global Handwashing Day. Activities are planned in more than twenty countries to get millions of people…
2008-10-01 New Money for Malaria
Governments, businesses and other groups have promised to add three billion dollars to the fight against malaria. The promises came last week at a meeting at the United Nations in…
2008-09-24 New Findings Add to Health Concerns About a Chemical in Plastics
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bisphenol A is a chemical widely used to make hard, polycarbonate plastic. Food storage containers, reusable water bottles and baby bottles are…
2008-09-17 New Findings on Children and Mental Illness
This the VOA Special English Health Report. People who are schizophrenic sometimes hear voices or see things that are not real. They might believe other people want to hurt them.…
2008-09-10 Teenagers and Pregnancy
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. More than seven hundred thousand teenagers a year get pregnant in the United States. The teen pregnancy rate has fallen thirty-eight percent…
2008-09-03 Understanding Down Syndrome
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Deep inside each cell in our body is all the genetic information needed for life. Human genes are normally organized along forty-six…
2008-08-27 Brain Aneurysms: Rare but Usually Deadly If They Burst
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We often hear the term brain aneurysm. Joe Biden had two of them twenty years ago. Doctors saved his life. Now the…
2008-08-20 Study Shows Limits in Helping Children Deal With Conflict | Alcohol Abuse and U.S. Troops Back From War
This the VOA Special English Health Report. The Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, has published its yearly issue on violence and human rights. One report is on…
2008-08-13 When a Stroke Is Silent
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A stroke is a loss of blood flow in the brain. There are two kinds of stroke. One is an ischemic stroke.…
2008-08-06 Got Milk? Why Not Bank It?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Money, jewels and important documents may not be the only valuables placed in banks these days. Some mothers are making deposits, or…