2009-03-25 New Test Could Speed Tuberculosis Results
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tuberculosis killed one million three hundred thousand people around the world in…
2009-03-18 Study Links Hot Weather to Migraine Headaches
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A migraine headache can cause disabling pain. People may not feel back…
2009-03-11 Laying the Roots for Healthy Teeth in Young Children
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bad teeth can be painful — and worse. They can even be…
2009-03-04 Scientists Take Step in Search of ‘Universal’ Flu Vaccine
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Evidence is increasing that common influenza viruses are becoming resistant to the…
2009-02-25 A Handful of Findings About Finger Length
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Is there meaning in the length of a finger? An eighteen ninety-three…
2009-02-18 Young Peoples’ Risky Behavior on Social Network Sites
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers say more than half of young people who use MySpace often…
2009-02-11 Teens, Television, and Depression
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study suggests that the more teenagers watch television, the more…
2009-02-04 Something a Bone Will Never Say: Give Me a Break
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The medical term for a broken bone is a fracture. But there…
2009-01-21 How Strangers Can Make You Happy
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. What makes people happier: money or having happy friends and neighbors? Researchers…
2009-01-14 Wising Up About Wisdom Teeth
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Wisdom teeth are normally the last teeth to appear in the mouth.…
2009-01-07 City Has a Lot Fewer Heart Attacks After Smoking Ban
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. More than twenty of the fifty American states ban smoking in public…
2008-12-31 In Treating Hypothermia, Slow and Gentle Are Best
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We talked last week about ways to avoid hypothermia and other cold-weather…
2008-12-24 Want to Stay Warm in the Winter? Think COLD
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Winter in many places means ice skating, sledding and snowball fights. But…
2008-12-17 Simple Measures Can Prevent Injuries to Children
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Every day, more than two thousand children worldwide die from accidental injury.…