2006-07-05 Health: Looking for Skin Cancer
I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer. The risk increases in summer because ultraviolet rays from…
2006-06-28 Scientists Say Anger Disorder ‘Much More Common’ Than Believed
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. Lots of people get angry in traffic. But some people get really angry. This hostility can lead to aggressive actions…
2006-06-21 Pregnant Women Warned About a Kind of Blood Pressure Medicine
I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Some of the most commonly used medicines for high blood pressure are drugs called ACE inhibitors. Doctors have given these…
2006-06-14 Growing Replacement Organs From Patients’ Own Cells
This is Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Around the world, there is a shortage of replacement organs. Some doctors see a possible solution: growing new organs…
2006-06-07 Taking Care With Medicines
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. Recently VOA’s reporters have explored some of the issues facing health care systems around the world. Today we talk about…
2006-05-31 Cervical Cancer Vaccine Moves Toward U.S. Approval
I’m Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English Health Report. A vaccine to protect against cervical cancer has moved toward approval in the United States. The drug company Merck developed…
2006-05-17 Drink Companies Agree Not to Sell Sugary Soda in U.S. Schools
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. These days, about half of all drinks sold in American schools are sugary soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi. Opponents…
2006-05-24 F.D.A. Approves New Artificial Knee Implants for Women
I’m Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English HEALTH REPORT. Women who have problems with artificial knee implants may get some help soon. The United States Food and Drug Administration…
2006-05-10 UNICEF Says China Meets Child Nutrition Goal, Urges Other Nations to Do More
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. A new report from the United Nations says the world must do much more to reduce the number of underweight…
2006-05-03 Midwestern U.S. Fights a Mumps Outbreak
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. States in the American Midwest are working to contain an outbreak of the mumps virus. Health workers are vaccinating college…
2006-04-26 Sleepless in America: Report Says Millions Have Trouble at Bedtime
This is Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. A new report says an estimated fifty million to seventy million Americans have sleep problems. It says many more…
2006-04-19 Increasing Supplies of Malaria Drug Through Genetic Engineering
I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Malaria infects as many as five hundred million people every year. And more than one million people die from the…
2006-04-12 Measles Campaign Cuts Deaths by Almost Half
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. Measles is an infection of the breathing system. The cause is a virus. It spreads through the air when infected…
2006-04-05 A New Life Treating AIDS in Africa, Then Tragedy Strikes
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. Botswana has a small population, less than two million, but a big problem with AIDS. Forty percent of its people…
2006-03-29 Increased Efforts Urged to Fight Tuberculosis
I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Almost two million people every year die from tuberculosis. Almost nine million develop new cases. Experts say about one-third of…