2008-05-14 Need Your Appendix Out? Let Me Reach Down Your Throat
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Medical researchers keep looking for less invasive ways to perform operations. The aim is to cut less and to reduce pain and…
2008-05-07 How to Do ‘Hands-Only CPR’
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, is help for a stopped heart. It increases the chances of survival and reduces the danger of brain…
2008-04-30 Deaths in Blood-Thinner Patients Bring Calls for Answers
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Heparin is a blood-thinning medicine made from pig intestines, which often come from small farms in China. The drug is often used…
2008-04-23 New Malaria Drug Launched in Latin America, Southeast Asia
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A Brazilian drug company and a nonprofit group have developed a new, simplified malaria treatment. Patients have to take only one tablet…
2008-04-16 Chinese Say Son With Bird Flu Likely Infected Father
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers in China have reported on a rare human-to-human case of bird flu. They say it is likely that a twenty-four year…
2008-04-09 Study Links Midlife Belly Fat to Higher Risk of Dementia
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Being overweight can lead to high blood pressure, diabetes and heart attacks. But now there may be another reason to lose the…
2008-04-02 WHO Targets Climate Change for World Health Day 2008
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Next Monday is World Health Day, observed by the World Health Organization. The objective chosen for this year is to get people…
2008-03-26 New Drug Shows Promise Against Worm Disease
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists think they are a step closer to a new drug to treat schistosomiasis. More than two hundred million people suffer from…
2008-03-19 Vaccine a Big Success Against Meningitis in Uganda
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Meningitis is an infection of the tissue that covers the brain and spinal cord. Both bacteria and viruses can cause it. Viral…
2008-03-05 The Dark Side of Skin Lightening
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In many societies, there is often greater acceptance of light skin than dark skin. Light skin may be seen as a mark…
2008-03-12 Report Points to Limits of Some Antidepressants
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A study has raised new questions about the effectiveness of several popular drugs for depression. These antidepressants are known as selective serotonin…
2008-02-27 Midlife Crisis and U
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study shows that unhappiness in middle age, also known as midlife crisis, is a universal experience. Two economists did the…
2008-02-20 WHO Sees Tobacco Risk to a Billion Lives This Century
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization is urging countries to follow six policies to prevent millions of tobacco-related deaths. The six policies are known…
2008-02-13 A Success Story for Malaria Control
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Every year, malaria sickens about five hundred million people. More than one million of them die, mostly young children and pregnant women…
2008-02-06 Drug Shown to Cut HIV Risk in Breastfed Babies
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We talked last week about the value of breastfeeding for a baby’s development. But getting the milk into the baby can seem…