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…
2007-02-07 For Some Patients, Brain Damage Cures Cigarette Addiction
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Chemical dependency can result from many things: alcohol, caffeine, illegal drugs like cocaine, legal drugs like pain killers. But one of the…
2007-01-31 In the Mind of an Amnesiac, It Seems the Future May Suffer, Too
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Amnesia is a loss of memory. But scientists in Britain have found that it can mean a loss of imagination as well.…
2007-01-24 Vaccination Campaign Cuts Measles Deaths; New Goal Set
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Measles is one of the most infectious viruses known. It spreads through the air when people infected with the disease cough or…
2007-01-17 Progress Reported in AIDS Campaign for Children
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Our subject this week is children and AIDS. The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has just released a report on a campaign…
2007-01-10 Childhood Health: Life in a Germ Factory
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A mother in Tamil Nadu, India, recently had a question for our new series on children and parenting. This woman in Tuticorin…
2007-01-03 Researchers Say Vitamin D Might Protect Against Multiple Sclerosis
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In recent years, research has suggested more health value from vitamin D than had once been thought. Vitamin D is produced naturally…
2006-12-27 Healthier Eating in New York Hard For Some to Swallow
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. New York City wants to fight fat. The Board of Health has passed a ban on trans fats in all restaurants. Eating…
2006-12-20 Strongest Evidence Yet That Circumcision Lowers Men’s HIV Risk
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. AIDS researchers had important news last week. Two studies in Africa confirmed that men who are circumcised greatly reduce their risk of…
2006-12-13 Childhood Bed-Wetting: Some Advice for Parents
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We continue the first in a new series of reports from time to time on raising children. Today we discuss some ways…
2006-12-06 Dealing With Children’s Bed-Wetting
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Many parents wish children were born with directions. Raising children is a complex job — many would say the most complex there…
2006-11-29 Waltzing Pumps Up Heart Patients
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Dancing is good exercise. Now a study shows it can improve the health and quality of life of people with mild to…