2007-04-18 Vaccines: How They Work (and How Caterpillars Could Help)
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Most vaccines are designed with the same goal in mind. That is, to help the body’s own defense system prevent a disease…
2007-04-11 Looking for Weight-Loss Answers
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A listener has written from China for advice about how to lose weight. Michael in Shanghai says he is twenty-six years old…
2007-04-04 Metastasis: How Cancers Can Spread Their Reach
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The word “metastasize” means to change form, state or position. It is not a word cancer patients want to hear. Cancer can…
2007-03-21 American Drug Officials Say Some Sleep Drugs May Do More Than Make You Sleep
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The United States Food and Drug Administration has ordered companies to place strong new warnings on thirteen drugs that treat sleep disorders.…
2007-03-28 Chest Compressions May Be Most Important Part of CPR
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, can save the life of someone whose heart has stopped. The condition is called cardiac arrest. The heart…
2007-03-14 Laying the Roots for Healthy Teeth in Young Children
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. It might seem hard to imagine that a bad tooth could be deadly. But doctors in the Washington area say a twelve-year-old…
2007-03-07 New Malaria Drug Coming to Africa Is Low Cost, Easy to Take
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Malaria infects as many as five hundred million people worldwide each year and kills more than one million of them. The ones…
2007-02-28 Circumcision May Lower Men’s HIV Risk by More Than First Reported
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In December, we told you about two important studies of circumcision and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Scientists had reported that…
2007-02-21 Test May Show Heart Patients’ Risk | Napping to a Healthier Heart?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers say they have developed a simple test that can tell if a person with heart disease is likely to suffer a…
2007-02-14 Study Warns of Heart Disease Danger From Dirty Air
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study shows that air pollution may be more of a risk for heart disease than scientists have thought. The research…
2007-02-07 For Some Patients, Brain Damage Cures Cigarette Addiction
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Chemical dependency can result from many things: alcohol, caffeine, illegal drugs like cocaine, legal drugs like pain killers. But one of the…
2007-01-31 In the Mind of an Amnesiac, It Seems the Future May Suffer, Too
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Amnesia is a loss of memory. But scientists in Britain have found that it can mean a loss of imagination as well.…
2007-01-24 Vaccination Campaign Cuts Measles Deaths; New Goal Set
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Measles is one of the most infectious viruses known. It spreads through the air when people infected with the disease cough or…
2007-01-17 Progress Reported in AIDS Campaign for Children
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Our subject this week is children and AIDS. The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has just released a report on a campaign…
2007-01-10 Childhood Health: Life in a Germ Factory
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A mother in Tamil Nadu, India, recently had a question for our new series on children and parenting. This woman in Tuticorin…