2004-12-08 Study Links Ozone Pollution to Increased Deaths
I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. American researchers say they have found the strongest link yet between ozone pollution and damage to health. Their findings show…
2004-12-01 World AIDS Day 2004 Focuses on Risk to Women and Girls
I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. December first is World AIDS Day. This year, the campaign centers on women and girls. They now make up almost…
2004-11-24 Preparing for the Next Flu Pandemic
I’m Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Health Report. There has not been a worldwide outbreak of influenza since nineteen sixty-eight. Experts say there should have been another by…
2004-11-17 New Heart Drug Shows Promise in African Americans
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Health Report. Heart failure is a disease where the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body. Fluid collects in the…
2004-11-10 Study Links Traffic and Heart Attacks
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers say people traveling in traffic are three times more likely to suffer a heart attack whether driving in…
2004-11-03 Cell Phones Linked to Benign Tumors
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. A Swedish study suggests that people who use cellular phones for at least ten years might be at greater…
2004-10-27 Progress Toward a Malaria Vaccine
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. There is progress toward a vaccine to prevent malaria. Researchers have been testing an experimental vaccine in Mozambique. This…
2004-10-20 Actor Christopher Reeve Dies
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Actor Christopher Reeve died last week. He was fifty-two years old. He was a movie star who became an…
2004-10-13 Hormone Replacement Therapy Linked to Blood Clots
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. American researchers report more risks for older women who take the hormone replacement drugs estrogen and progestin. The researchers…
2004-09-29 World Heart Day
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Last Sunday was World Heart Day. The World Heart Federation started the event five years ago to increase public…
2004-10-06 Study Says Dogs Can Smell Cancer
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Dogs are known for their sense of smell. They can find missing people and things like bombs and illegal…
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 or the very young. In the United States, a new…
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 heart operation on Monday of last week. Mister Clinton had…
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 this lung disease is DOTS. DOTS is directly observed treatment,…
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 it kills more women than men. The American Heart Association…