2004-09-22 Study Increases Estimate of Flu Hospitalizations in the United States
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Influenza can be life-threatening, especially for the very old…
2004-09-15 Former President Bill Clinton Has Heart Bypass Surgery
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Former President Bill Clinton is recovering from a major…
2004-09-08 Finding and Treating Tuberculosis
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Experts on tuberculosis say the best treatment program for…
2004-09-01 Women and Heart Disease
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Heart disease is the leading killer of Americans. But…
2004-08-25 Avoiding Medical Mistakes
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Five years ago, researchers estimated the number of deaths…
2004-08-18 Blood Transfusion Blamed for Second ‘Mad Cow’ Infection in Humans
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Blood transfusions can save lives. But they can also…
2004-08-11 New Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Developed for Researchers
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers in the United States recently announced the development…
2004-08-04 New Alzheimer’s Drugs Tested
This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers say two experimental drugs may be able to…
2004-07-28 Survival Rates for Heart Failure Increase
This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. Heart failure is a condition in which the heart…
2004-07-21 Lightning Safety
This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. People who are hit by lightning and survive often…
2004-07-14 UN Says AIDS Crisis Is Getting Worse
This is Phoebe Zimmerman with the VOA Special English Health Report. The fifteenth International AIDS Conference ends Friday in Bangkok,…
2004-07-07 Rise in Number of Cancer Survivors
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States,…
2004-06-30 Polio Threatens Africa
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Health officials say the spread of polio from Nigeria into ten other…
2004-06-23 Tuberculosis and Women
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tuberculosis kills about two million people a year. The international campaign called…
2004-06-16 Surgeon General Links More Diseases to Smoking
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tobacco is even more dangerous than doctors have known. A new report…