2007-06-20 Experts List Warning Signs of Ovarian Cancer
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Ovarian cancer is known as a “silent killer” because it is usually discovered too late to save a woman’s life. But three…
2007-06-13 Stent Failure: How Much of the Problem Is Caused by Doctors?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Today we have the second half of a report about some concerns with the use of drug- treated coronary stents. These are…
2007-06-06 Unapproved Uses of Drug-Treated Heart Stents Questioned
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A coronary stent is a small tube that is used to treat heart patients. The tube is made of wire mesh. Doctors…
2007-05-30 Multivitamins Urged for All Pregnant Women in Developing Countries
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A recent study in Tanzania found that when pregnant women took vitamins every day, fewer babies were born too small. Babies that…
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…