2004-04-28 Studies Show Ginger May Ease Stomach Sickness During Pregnancy
This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. Stomach sickness is common during the first three months…
2004-04-21 Kidney Transplants
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Each year, thousands of people receive organ transplants. The most common of…
2004-04-14 Post Polio Syndrome
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Polio is a disease of the muscles and the nervous system. It…
2004-04-07 Blood Pressure Drugs May Prevent Dry Eye Syndrome
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Many people around the world suffer from dry eye syndrome. Lack of…
2004-03-31 New Findings About Cholesterol and Heart Attacks
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Sometimes people have the idea that all cholesterol in the blood is…
2004-03-24 National Library of Medicine
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Every year, people from all over the world get information from the…
2004-03-17 Scientists Find New Clue about Acupuncture
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. American researchers have reported progress in learning how the ancient traditional Chinese…
2004-03-10 New Drug Cuts Blood Supply to Cancer
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. There is an expression that describes the traditional three steps that doctors…
2004-03-03 How Much Water Should People Drink?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Many people believe they are supposed to drink eight glasses of water…
2004-02-25 Centers for Disease Control
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. One of the major health agencies in the United States is the…
2004-02-18 Heart Disease in Women
This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. Studies show that many American women believe breast cancer…
2004-02-11 How Antiviral Drugs Work
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Here is a common situation: A person gets sick with a high…
2004-02-04 New Method to Find Alzheimer’s Disease
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Alzheimer’s disease usually appears late in life. In the United States alone,…
2004-01-28 Progression of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. American researchers say that eating fatty foods can worsen…
2004-01-21 Prion Diseases
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In December, the United States reported its first case of mad cow…