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 each year from medical mistakes in United States hospitals. The…
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 spread diseases. Researchers believe this is how at least two…
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 of seventeen new lines of human embryonic stem cells. The…
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 slow or even stop the progress of Alzheimer’s disease. This…
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 cannot pump as much blood as the body needs. This…
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 have long-term effects. These may include memory loss, sleep disorders,…
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, Thailand. There has not been much good news. In fact,…
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, after heart disease. In the past, it was often considered…
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 countries in Africa threatens years of progress to end the…
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 Stop TB says this lung disease kills more men than…
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 says smoking causes disease in almost every organ in the…
2004-06-09 PSA Levels and Prostate Cancer
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Many older men are tested each year for cancer of the prostate gland. This organ is part of the male reproductive system.…
2004-06-02 Molecule in Soy May Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Foods made from soybeans are increasingly popular, and not just because of the taste. Studies has found that soy can be good…
2004-05-26 Spending Up for Behavior-Related Drugs for Children
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. More and more children take medicines to treat depression and other problems such as aggressiveness and lack of self-control. In fact, a…
2004-05-19 Doctors Study Benefits of Severely Reduced Calories
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Calories are a measure of energy in food. A small study has found that people improved their health when they severely restricted…