2010-09-22 New Findings on Surgery for Women With Genes Linked to Cancer
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Every year, one million women around the world are found to have…
2010-09-15 Groups Seek 4 Billion for Child Vaccines
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Vaccines and chest compressions are both ways to save lives. Now, separate…
2010-09-08 Bringing Attention to Differences in Suicide Around the World
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. This Friday is World Suicide Prevention Day. This year’s observance is meant…
2010-08-25 Experts Urge More Efforts to Fight Cancer in Poor Countries
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Health experts are calling for action to expand cancer care and control…
2010-09-01 For Lots of People, Getting Older Means Getting Happier
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news…
2010-08-18 Scientists Look for Answers as More US Girls Enter Puberty at Earlier Age
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A mother in Washington noticed something unusual one day, just before her…
2010-08-11 Study Finds No Reason to Delay Pregnancy After a Miscarriage
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A miscarriage is the natural loss of a pregnancy before the twentieth…
2010-08-04 Breastfeeding, a Skill That Mom and Baby ‘Learn From Each Other’
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. This is World Breastfeeding Week. The celebration is now in its nineteenth…
2010-07-28 Marking the 20th Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Twenty years ago this week, President George H. W. Bush signed a…
2010-07-21 Researchers in South Africa Announce a New Weapon in AIDS Fight
This is the Special English Health Report. South African researchers at the international AIDS conference in Vienna, Austria have announced…
2010-07-14 A New AIDS Plan for the US, and New Hopes for a Vaccine
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers, policy makers and activists are busy preparing for the International AIDS…
2010-07-07 Physical Activity in Teens Linked to Mental Skills in Late Life
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. How active you are early in life may affect how able-minded you…
2010-06-30 Eating White Rice Increases Risk of Diabetes
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Rice is an important part of many people’s diets. Researchers from the…
2010-06-23 Study Finds Improved Way to Treat COPD
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is a life-threatening condition commonly caused…
2010-06-16 Study Ties New Doctors to Jump in Hospital Deaths in July
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Being a patient in certain hospitals in the month of July can…