2012-10-03 Gene Mapping Identifies Four Different Types of Breast Cancer
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new genetic study has found four different types of breast cancer.…
2012-09-19 Fewer Children Under the Age of Five are Dying
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In recent years, the world has made progress in reducing deaths among…
2012-09-12 A UN Warning About Chemical Dangers
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The United Nations Environment Program is calling for urgent action to reduce…
2012-09-05 Do Sex Strikes Work?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last month, women in a civil rights group in Togo called a…
2012-08-29 More Low Cost Anti-AIDS Drugs Mean More People Treated
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. An American program called the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief helps…
2012-08-22 Tobacco Forces Still Strong
This is the VOA Special English HEALTH REPORT. This month, the Australian High Court ruled in support of a law…
2012-08-15 With Physical Activity, No Need to Be an Olympian
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Watching the Olympics probably made some people feel a little guilty about…
2012-08-08 Designing an Alternative to Antibiotics
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In nineteen twenty-eight a British scientist made a “chance observation.” He noticed…
2012-08-01 Uganda Fights Another Ebola Outbreak
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Uganda’s latest outbreak of Ebola virus is the fourth in recent years.…
2012-07-25 What Parents Can Do to Help Prevent Dating Abuse
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Today we take another look at teaching young people how to build…
2012-07-18 Starting Younger to Prevent Dating Abuse
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Programs that teach young people how to avoid abusive relationships are generally…
2012-07-11 How a 1959 Discovery Saves Premature Babies Today
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We told you last week about a study which found that more…
2012-07-04 The Global Problem of Preterm Births
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Premature or preterm births are defined as live births before a woman…
2012-06-27 Delay Pregnancy After a Miscarriage?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A miscarriage is the natural loss of a baby before the twentieth…
2012-06-20 For Smokers, Never Too Late to Quit; Diesel and Cancer
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. There is new medical evidence for the expression “better late than never.”…