Health Report

2011-03-23 Breast Cancer Study Could Change How Early Growths Are Treated

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Have you ever felt lumps under the skin on the sides of…

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2011-03-16 Nuclear Crisis in Japan Raises Worries About Radiation Risks

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The crisis at the damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station in northern…

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2011-03-09 Are People Who Speak More Than One Language Smarter?

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In the early nineteen fifties, researchers found that people scored lower on…

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2011-03-02 After Brain Study, New Questions About Mobile Phones

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. How important is your mobile phone, better known to Americans as a…

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2011-02-23 A Possible Safe New Way to Kill Mosquitoes That Spread Malaria

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Israeli researchers say they have developed a substance that attracts and kills…

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2011-02-16 World Health Organization Says Alcohol Abuse is an International Problem

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says alcohol abuse is the third leading cause…

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2011-02-09 A Fatter World, Yet Fewer Cases of High Blood Pressure

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last week a study of one hundred ninety-nine countries and territories confirmed…

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2011-02-02 Why Doctors May Not Always Try to Save a Fingertip

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We started talking last week about how to decide if a common…

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2011-01-26 When a Cut Finger Is More Serious Than It Might Seem

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Hospital emergency rooms treat injured fingers all the time. Without treatment, a…

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2011-01-19 WHO Chief Warns of Risk to ‘Winning Streak’ for Public Health

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says it has reached a limit in its…

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2011-01-12 Arizona Congresswoman May Owe Life to Luck and ‘Battlefield Lessons’

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. On Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, a gunman opened fire on a small…

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2011-01-05 Iron, Vitamin D May Lead to Smarter, Healthier Children

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Many people have low iron in their blood. But pregnant women need…

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2010-12-29 Slow and Gentle Are Best in Treating Hypothermia

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We talked last week about ways to avoid cold-weather injuries. Today we…

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2010-12-22 Advice for Staying Warm and Safe in Freezing Weather

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Freezing weather can mean frostbite and hypothermia unless a person is prepared.…

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2010-12-15 Kids, Germs and Day Care; A Meningitis Vaccine for Africa

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. When parents go to work, their young children often spend the day…

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