14 September 2010 Rwandan children receiving pneumococcal vaccine in April 2009 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Vaccines and chest compressions are both ways to save lives. Now, separate new reports say each could save more lives if th...

17 August 2010 BARBARA KLEIN: Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Visit any airport, train station, or coffee shop in the United States this summer, and chances are you will find someone reading...

17 August 2010 Girls in Kansas at a summer program aimed at fighting childhood obesity This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A mother in Washington noticed something unusual one day, just before her daughter's eighth birthday. MOTHER: I noti...

10 August 2010 Miscarriages take place in as many as 20 percent of known pregnancies This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A miscarriage is the natural loss of a pregnancy before the twentieth week. This happens to as many as twenty percent...

03 August 2010 Jill Hall with her son Thomas This is the VOA Special English Health Report. This is World Breastfeeding Week. The celebration is now in its nineteenth year. It grew out of a meeting organized by UNICEF to find ways to support breastfe...

27 July 2010 Bobbi Wailes contracted polio as a child. Today she runs the Lincoln Center programs for disability in New York. This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Twenty years ago this week, President George H. W. Bush signed a civil rights...

20 July 2010 Scientists from the Center for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa, which produced the gel, from left, Koleka Mlisana, Leila Mansoor, Janet Frohlich and Senge Sibeko This is the Special English Health Report. South African resea...

13 July 2010 A copy of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. The plan calls for cutting infections in the United States by 25 percent in five years This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers, policy makers and activists are busy preparing f...

06 July 2010 A study has linked exercise in teen years to better mental ability later in life This is the VOA Special English Health Report. How active you are early in life may affect how able-minded you are late in life. That was the finding of a n...

29 June 2010 Researchers say eating brown rice reduces the risk of type two diabetes This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Rice is an important part of many peoples diets. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health in Massachusetts...