By Caty Weaver 2009-12-22 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Freezing weather can mean frostbite and hypothermia unless a person is prepared. Today we talk about how to stay warm, dry and safe. Frostbite is damage that happens when skin i...
By Caty Weaver 2009-12-15 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last week, researchers in the United States reported curing nine adults with sickle cell disease. Ten patients in all were treated in a study with donated bone marrow. The healt...
By Caty Weaver 2009-12-1 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tuesday was World AIDS Day, and the latest report on the epidemic provided some reason to celebrate. Experts say new H.I.V. infections have fallen by seventeen percent since two...
By Caty Weaver 2009-11-24 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Sometimes new health advice conflicts with old advice. Yet new guidelines last week for breast cancer testing in the United States created a storm of debate. The advice came fro...
By Caty Weaver 2009-11-17 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. On Monday, an influential group of medical experts released new guidelines on testing for breast cancer. The guidelines are from the United States Preventive Services Task Force...
By Caty Weaver 2009-11-10 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. H1N1 flu continues to spread. Currently the virus is most active in the northern half of the world. But experts say it has become the leading influenza virus in all countries. N...
By VOA 2009-11-3 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In nineteen eighty-seven, H.I.V./AIDS joined a list of diseases that could keep a person out of the United States. The government later tried to cancel its decision. But Congress made th...
By Caty Weaver 2009-10-27 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A concussion happens when the brain is shaken, often in a car crash or a fall or a strike to the head in sports. Concussions can be mild, but doctors may order a CT scan to look...
By Caty Weaver 2009-10-20 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Two recent studies have found that punishment is not the best way to influence behavior. One showed that adults are much more cooperative if they work in a system based on rewar...
By Caty Weaver 2009-10-13 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Pope Benedict named five new saints on Sunday, including a Catholic clergyman who cared for people in a leper colony. A picture of Father Damien at the ceremony making him a sai...
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