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Concussions Are Serious	Hits:1
Concussions happen when the brain is shaken inside the skull. This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Doctors say the head injury called a concussion is more serious for children and young adults than people might think....	03/01/2014
Recognizing Medical Emer	Hits:1
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Medical emergencies are not always easy to recognize. Yet any delay in emergency treatment could mean the difference between life and death or permanent disability. The American College of...	03/01/2014
New Studies Aim to Expan	Hits:1
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A young child with autismScientists are trying to better understand autism. The National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, recently announced the start of three major studies...	03/01/2014
Thousands of Workers at	Hits:1
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Many of the workers who served at the World Trade Center after the September eleventh attacks became sick. They breathed a harmful mix of dust, smoke and chemicals in the ruins of the Twin...	03/01/2014
W.H.O. Calls for Indoor	Hits:1
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization now supports the use of DDT in homes to control malaria. The agency supported indoor spraying with DDT and other insect poisons until the early nineteen eighties....	03/01/2014
Gene Therapy Used to Tre	Hits:1
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study demonstrates what researchers say is the first successful use of genetic engineering to treat cancer. The researchers say they were able to get normal cells from a person's own...	03/01/2014
Scientists Develop Stem	Hits:1
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers say they have found a way to produce stem cells from human embryos without harm to the embryo. The technology uses a single cell taken from an eight-cell embryo known...	03/01/2014
Working to Prevent AIDS	Hits:1
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The sixteenth International AIDS Conference ended Friday in Toronto, Canada. All week there was discussion of the need to do more to prevent H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. Speakers called...	03/01/2014
At AIDS Conference, More	Hits:1
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Prevention is a central issue being discussed at the sixteenth International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada. Twenty-four thousand delegates are at the conference which ends Friday....	03/01/2014
Indonesia Passes Vietnam	Hits:1
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Indonesia passed Vietnam this week as the country with the highest confirmed number of human deaths from bird flu. It happened Monday when a sixteen-year-old boy from West Java died in a...	03/01/2014
Study in Ferrets Shows H	Hits:1
Written by Caty Weaver This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In recent days there have been two seemingly hopeful pieces of news about bird flu. One involves a study by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and...	03/01/2014
A One-Pill Answer to Tre	Hits:1
Written by Caty Weaver This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The first treatment for H.I.V. in the form of one pill taken once a day is going to market in the United States. A spokesman for the drug company Bristol-Myers...	03/01/2014
Surgeon General Says Sec	Hits:1
Written by Caty Weaver This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientific evidence has been building about the dangers to people who do not smoke from those who do. Now the top doctor in the United States says the evidence cannot be...	03/01/2014
Explaining the Placebo E	Hits:1
I'm Katherine Cole with the VOA Special English Health Report. Studies of new drugs traditionally involve at least two groups of people. The people in one of those groups are given only what they think is the drug. Really...	03/01/2014
Health: Looking for Skin	Hits:1
Written by Brianna Blake I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer. The risk increases in summer because ultraviolet rays from the sun are the main cause of skin...	03/01/2014
Pregnant Women Warned Ab	Hits:1
Written by Brianna BlakeI'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Some of the most commonly used medicines for high blood pressure are drugs called ACE inhibitors. Doctors have given these drugs to patients for twenty...	03/01/2014
Scientists Say Anger Dis	Hits:1
Written by Brianna Blake I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. Lots of people get angry in traffic. But some people get really angry. This hostility can lead to aggressive actions or, in some cases, violence...	03/01/2014
Growing Replacement Orga	Hits:1
Written by Caty Weaver This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Around the world, there is a shortage of replacement organs. Some doctors see a possible solution: growing new organs from patients' own cells. Doctor...	03/01/2014
Taking Care With Medicin	Hits:1
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Cervical Cancer Vaccine	Hits:1
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F.D.A. Approves New Arti	Hits:1
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UNICEF Says China Meets	Hits:1
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Drink Companies Agree No	Hits:1
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Midwestern U.S. Fights a	Hits:1
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Sleepless in America: Re	Hits:1
Written by Lawan Davis I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. A new report says an estimated fifty million to seventy million Americans have sleep problems. It says many more are suffering from lack of sleep. A group...	03/01/2014