2006-09-20 W.H.O. Calls for Indoor Use of DDT to Control Malaria
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization now supports the use of DDT in homes to control malaria. The agency supported indoor spraying with DDT…
2006-09-13 Thousands of Workers at Ground Zero Still Suffer Lung Problems
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Many of the workers who served at the World Trade Center after the September eleventh attacks became sick. They breathed a harmful…
2006-09-06 Gene Therapy Used to Treat Cancer | Stem Cell Study Leads to Criticism, Questions
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study demonstrates what researchers say is the first successful use of genetic engineering to treat cancer. The researchers say they…
2006-08-30 Scientists Develop Stem Cells Without Loss of Embryos
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers say they have found a way to produce stem cells from human embryos without harm to the embryo. The technology uses…
2006-08-23 Working to Prevent AIDS — and Lacking Enough Health Workers for the Job
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The sixteenth International AIDS Conference ended Friday in Toronto, Canada. All week there was discussion of the need to do more to…
2006-08-09 Indonesia Passes Vietnam as Nation With Most Bird Flu Deaths
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Indonesia passed Vietnam this week as the country with the highest confirmed number of human deaths from bird flu. It happened Monday…
2006-08-16 At AIDS Conference, More Efforts Urged to Empower Women
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Prevention is a central issue being discussed at the sixteenth International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada. Twenty-four thousand delegates are at the…
2006-08-02 Study in Ferrets Shows H5N1 Virus Does Not Spread Easily
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In recent days there have been two seemingly hopeful pieces of news about bird flu. One involves a study by scientists at…
2006-07-26 A One-Pill Answer to Treating H.I.V.
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The first treatment for H.I.V. in the form of one pill taken once a day is going to market in the United…
2006-07-12 Explaining the Placebo Effect
I’m Katherine Cole with the VOA Special English Health Report. Studies of new drugs traditionally involve at least two groups of people. The people in one of those groups are…
2006-07-05 Health: Looking for Skin Cancer
I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer. The risk increases in summer because ultraviolet rays from…
2006-06-28 Scientists Say Anger Disorder ‘Much More Common’ Than Believed
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. Lots of people get angry in traffic. But some people get really angry. This hostility can lead to aggressive actions…
2006-06-21 Pregnant Women Warned About a Kind of Blood Pressure Medicine
I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Some of the most commonly used medicines for high blood pressure are drugs called ACE inhibitors. Doctors have given these…
2006-06-14 Growing Replacement Organs From Patients’ Own Cells
This is Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Around the world, there is a shortage of replacement organs. Some doctors see a possible solution: growing new organs…
2006-06-07 Taking Care With Medicines
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. Recently VOA’s reporters have explored some of the issues facing health care systems around the world. Today we talk about…