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15 June 2010 Deaths from medication errors jump in July This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Being a patient in certain hospitals in the month of July can be dangerous or even deadly. That was the finding of sociology professor David Philli...
08 June 201 A South African child plays soccer in the poor Soweto area where the 2010 World Cup final will be played BARBARA KLEIN: Im Barbara Klein. BOB DOUGHTY: And Im Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. A maker of luxury travel g...
08 June 2010 Allysa Adams of reads to her daughter Andie before bedtime in this 2007 file photo This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Parents know a nightly bedtime is not always easy to enforce. But researchers say bedtime rules may improve...
01 June 2010 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A pacemaker is a small device that doctors place in people with an abnormal heartbeat. If a heart beats too slowly, the pacemaker will use electrical signals to help set a normal rate. Some...
25 May 2010 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A.D.H.D. is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Government estimates say three to seven percent of school-age children in the United States have it. Adults can also have it. People with...
18 May 2010 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful disease that can destroy joints. Women are three times more likely to get it than men. Rheumatoid arthritis is considered an autoimmune disease, a disease wh...
11 May 2010 A patient talks to his doctor after undergoing gastric bypass surgery for obesity at a hospital in Ahmadabad, India last year. This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Malnutrition remains a serious problem for India. But a new stud...
04 May 2010 Turkish Cypriot women in Nicosia cheer at a political gathering. Women in Cyprus have the lowest rate of premature death This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study examines and compares adult death rates worldwide over the...
27 April 2010 South African President Jacob Zuma, center, at a World AIDS Day event in Pretoria, South Africa last December This is the VOA Special English Health Report. South Africa plans to test fifteen million people for H.I.V. by June of next ye...
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