2007-05-23 Ear Care: Do-It-Yourself Wax Removal
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…
2007-05-16 Fewer US Women Getting Mammograms
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Research is often a slow, maddening search for answers where each new finding only seems to raise more questions. This is the…
2007-05-09 Something a Bone Will Never Say: Give Me a Break
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The medical term for a broken bone is a fracture. But there are different kinds of fractures. A single fracture is when…
2007-05-02 Discovery Could Ease Blood Shortages in Hospitals
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists may have found a way to reduce shortages of type O blood. Type O is the kind of blood that hospitals…
2007-04-25 Breast Cancer in US Stayed Down in ’04 for Second Year
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last year, researchers reported that breast cancer rates in the United States dropped in two thousand three. That was after about twenty…
2007-04-18 Vaccines: How They Work (and How Caterpillars Could Help)
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Most vaccines are designed with the same goal in mind. That is, to help the body’s own defense system prevent a disease…
2007-04-11 Looking for Weight-Loss Answers
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A listener has written from China for advice about how to lose weight. Michael in Shanghai says he is twenty-six years old…
2007-04-04 Metastasis: How Cancers Can Spread Their Reach
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The word “metastasize” means to change form, state or position. It is not a word cancer patients want to hear. Cancer can…
2007-03-21 American Drug Officials Say Some Sleep Drugs May Do More Than Make You Sleep
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The United States Food and Drug Administration has ordered companies to place strong new warnings on thirteen drugs that treat sleep disorders.…
2007-03-28 Chest Compressions May Be Most Important Part of CPR
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, can save the life of someone whose heart has stopped. The condition is called cardiac arrest. The heart…
2007-03-14 Laying the Roots for Healthy Teeth in Young Children
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. It might seem hard to imagine that a bad tooth could be deadly. But doctors in the Washington area say a twelve-year-old…
2007-03-07 New Malaria Drug Coming to Africa Is Low Cost, Easy to Take
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Malaria infects as many as five hundred million people worldwide each year and kills more than one million of them. The ones…
2007-02-28 Circumcision May Lower Men’s HIV Risk by More Than First Reported
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In December, we told you about two important studies of circumcision and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Scientists had reported that…
2007-02-21 Test May Show Heart Patients’ Risk | Napping to a Healthier Heart?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers say they have developed a simple test that can tell if a person with heart disease is likely to suffer a…
2007-02-14 Study Warns of Heart Disease Danger From Dirty Air
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study shows that air pollution may be more of a risk for heart disease than scientists have thought. The research…