2013-10-16 Food Market Becomes Hub for Deaf Community
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Almost 8 million Americans are deaf, or have ‘difficulty hearing’. A food market in Washington makes a special effort to serve…
2013-10-09 Aging Countries Look to Vietnam to Fill Nursing Gap
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Japan and Germany have the world’s oldest populations, but neither country has enough trained health care workers to meet the needs…
2013-10-02 Life Expectancy Gap Widens Between Women in Rich and Poor Countries
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. The World Health Organization says women aged 50 and older are generally in better health now than they were 20 to…
2013-09-18 Treated Bed Nets Critical to Stopping lymphatic Filariasis
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Scientists are working on ways to stop a disease that threatens one-fifth of the world’s population. Over 120 million people are…
2013-09-11 WHO: People Needing Health Care Should Not Go Broke
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. The World Health Organization says everyone should have a right to the health care services they need without risking financial ruin.…
2013-09-04 Children Who Drink Lots of Soft Drinks More Likely to Be Aggressive
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. A new study has found evidence of aggressive behavior in children who drink four or more servings of soft drinks every…
2013-08-28 The Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Use
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. A new study has found that excessive alcohol drinking costs Americans more than $220 billion a year, that amount is equal…
2013-08-14 Study: Pregnant Women Not Gaining Access to Malaria Prevention
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Malaria kills about 200,000 newborn babies and 10,000 new mothers every year. Most of these death are in Africa. Malaria can…
2013-08-21 Study Finds Light Color Affects Mood
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Some colors that people see late at night could cause signs of the condition mental health experts call clinical depression. That…
2013-08-07 Zambia Launches Program To Vaccinate Girls Against HPV
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Zambia has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer in the world, 90 of every 100,000 Zambian women get the…
2013-08-01 Memory Decline May Be Earliest Sign of Alzheimer’s
From VOA learning English, this is the Health Report. You wake up early one morning to make a meal to take to work and then you forget it. Has this…
2013-07-17 New ‘Scent Device’ Called OdoReader Can Identify Bladder Cancer
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Bladder cancer is the ninth most common cancer in the world, an estimated 12 million new cases are found every year.…
2013-07-03 Researchers Develop Treatment for PTSD
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. An international team of researchers has developed a drug that could help in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is…
2013-06-26 Poor Oral Health Leads to Social and Emotional Problems
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. A new report says nearly four-billion people have major tooth decay, or cavities. That number represents more than half of the…
2013-06-19 Group Cognitive Therapy Helps Rape Victims Heal
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Group cognitive therapy is a form of mental health treatment. A study has found that this form of talk therapy can…