Health Report

2008-12-10 Scientists See Progress on a Dengue Vaccine

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Dengue fever is sometimes called "break-bone fever." It produces intense pain in…

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2008-12-03 Study Looks at Mental Disorders in College-Age Adults

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study in the United States says mental disorders appear to…

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2008-11-26 Feeling No Pain: The World of Anesthesia

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Anesthesia is used during operations and other medical procedures to block pain…

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2008-11-19 Health: Keeping Ears Clean

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Some people's ears produce wax like busy little bees. This can be…

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2008-11-12 Obama Team Reviews Bush’s Order on Stem Cells

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., is home to the National Institutes of…

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2008-10-22 Colds, Flu and Folk Advice

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Autumn and winter are cold and flu season -- when people are…

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2008-10-15 Hand Washing: So Important, It Gets a Day Of Its Own

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Wednesday, October fifteenth, is the first Global Handwashing Day. Activities are planned…

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2008-10-01 New Money for Malaria

Governments, businesses and other groups have promised to add three billion dollars to the fight against malaria. The promises came…

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2008-09-24 New Findings Add to Health Concerns About a Chemical in Plastics

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bisphenol A is a chemical widely used to make hard, polycarbonate plastic.…

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2008-09-17 New Findings on Children and Mental Illness

This the VOA Special English Health Report. People who are schizophrenic sometimes hear voices or see things that are not…

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2008-09-10 Teenagers and Pregnancy

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. More than seven hundred thousand teenagers a year get pregnant in the…

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2008-09-03 Understanding Down Syndrome

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Deep inside each cell in our body is all the genetic information…

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2008-08-27 Brain Aneurysms: Rare but Usually Deadly If They Burst

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We often hear the term brain aneurysm. Joe Biden had two of…

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2008-08-20 Study Shows Limits in Helping Children Deal With Conflict | Alcohol Abuse and U.S. Troops Back From War

This the VOA Special English Health Report. The Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, has published its yearly…

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2008-08-13 When a Stroke Is Silent

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A stroke is a loss of blood flow in the brain. There…

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