2004-10-27 Progress Toward a Malaria Vaccine
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. There is progress toward a vaccine to prevent malaria. Researchers have been testing an experimental vaccine in Mozambique. This…
2004-10-20 Actor Christopher Reeve Dies
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Actor Christopher Reeve died last week. He was fifty-two years old. He was a movie star who became an…
2004-10-13 Hormone Replacement Therapy Linked to Blood Clots
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. American researchers report more risks for older women who take the hormone replacement drugs estrogen and progestin. The researchers…
2004-09-29 World Heart Day
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Last Sunday was World Heart Day. The World Heart Federation started the event five years ago to increase public…
2004-10-06 Study Says Dogs Can Smell Cancer
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Dogs are known for their sense of smell. They can find missing people and things like bombs and illegal…
2004-09-22 Study Increases Estimate of Flu Hospitalizations in the United States
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Influenza can be life-threatening, especially for the very old or the very young. In the United States, a new…
2004-09-15 Former President Bill Clinton Has Heart Bypass Surgery
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Former President Bill Clinton is recovering from a major heart operation on Monday of last week. Mister Clinton had…
2004-09-08 Finding and Treating Tuberculosis
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Experts on tuberculosis say the best treatment program for this lung disease is DOTS. DOTS is directly observed treatment,…
2004-09-01 Women and Heart Disease
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Heart disease is the leading killer of Americans. But it kills more women than men. The American Heart Association…
2004-08-25 Avoiding Medical Mistakes
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Five years ago, researchers estimated the number of deaths each year from medical mistakes in United States hospitals. The…
2004-08-18 Blood Transfusion Blamed for Second ‘Mad Cow’ Infection in Humans
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Blood transfusions can save lives. But they can also spread diseases. Researchers believe this is how at least two…
2004-08-11 New Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Developed for Researchers
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers in the United States recently announced the development of seventeen new lines of human embryonic stem cells. The…
2004-08-04 New Alzheimer’s Drugs Tested
This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers say two experimental drugs may be able to slow or even stop the progress of Alzheimer’s disease. This…
2004-07-28 Survival Rates for Heart Failure Increase
This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. Heart failure is a condition in which the heart cannot pump as much blood as the body needs. This…
2004-07-21 Lightning Safety
This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. People who are hit by lightning and survive often have long-term effects. These may include memory loss, sleep disorders,…