2011-04-20 What Do You Know About the Common Cold?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Do you think getting cold can give you a cold? Is it…
2011-04-13 A New Reason for Why the Deaf May Have Trouble Reading
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Deaf people may have no trouble communicating English words through American Sign…
2011-04-06 Why Hands-Free Faucets May Be a Risk to Some Hospital Patients
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Automatic faucets use an electronic sensor to start and stop the flow…
2011-03-30 Doctors Lack Many Ways to Treat Radiation Exposure
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Countries across Asia and beyond are reporting small amounts of radiation from…
2011-03-23 Breast Cancer Study Could Change How Early Growths Are Treated
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Have you ever felt lumps under the skin on the sides of…
2011-03-16 Nuclear Crisis in Japan Raises Worries About Radiation Risks
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The crisis at the damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station in northern…
2011-03-09 Are People Who Speak More Than One Language Smarter?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In the early nineteen fifties, researchers found that people scored lower on…
2011-03-02 After Brain Study, New Questions About Mobile Phones
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. How important is your mobile phone, better known to Americans as a…
2011-02-23 A Possible Safe New Way to Kill Mosquitoes That Spread Malaria
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Israeli researchers say they have developed a substance that attracts and kills…
2011-02-16 World Health Organization Says Alcohol Abuse is an International Problem
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says alcohol abuse is the third leading cause…
2011-02-09 A Fatter World, Yet Fewer Cases of High Blood Pressure
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last week a study of one hundred ninety-nine countries and territories confirmed…
2011-02-02 Why Doctors May Not Always Try to Save a Fingertip
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We started talking last week about how to decide if a common…
2011-01-26 When a Cut Finger Is More Serious Than It Might Seem
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Hospital emergency rooms treat injured fingers all the time. Without treatment, a…
2011-01-19 WHO Chief Warns of Risk to ‘Winning Streak’ for Public Health
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says it has reached a limit in its…
2011-01-12 Arizona Congresswoman May Owe Life to Luck and ‘Battlefield Lessons’
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. On Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, a gunman opened fire on a small…