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…
2013-06-12 Overweight Children in Developing Countries
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. The World Health Organization (WHO) says there has been a sharp increase in the number of children in developing countries who…
2013-05-29 Scientists for the First Time Create Human Stem Cells through Cloning
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. American scientists have for the first time taken stem cells from human embryos that are genetic copies of living people. The…
2013-05-22 People Living Near Toxic Waste Sites are Exposed to Many Chemicals
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Millions of people in developing countries living near toxic waste dumps. A new study looked at the dangers of living near…
2013-05-01 WHO says the H7N9 Bird Flu Virus is Unusually Dangerous for People
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. A World Health Organization official says a new strain of avian influenza is unusually dangerous for people. Keiji Fakuda is the…
2013-04-24 World Health Organization Urges Countries to Vaccinate Children
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. The World Health Organization says vaccinations against disease save the lives of two to three million children every year. The WHO…
2013-04-10 Fight Against Militants in Pakistan Leads to Advanced Treatments for Wounded
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. More than five thousand members of the Pakistani security forces have been killed in the fight against terrorists and militants since…
2013-04-03 Polio remains a threat in some places
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English. Most countries are now free of polio, but the disease remains a threat in some places including Nigeria.…