UN to Plot Strategy against Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease Later this month (9/19-20), the U.N. hosts the High-level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases, such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. The goal is to find strategies to reduce the number...
BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Middle-aged white women drinking alcohol moderately are more likely to stay healthy than nondrinkers, according to a new study from Harvard. The study has followed about 14,000 mostly white women since 1976. As a resul...
[00:01.42]He stayed at a hotel where the disease [00:03.46]spread to four more people. [00:05.57]When these people left the hotel [00:07.15]and returned home, [00:08.50]they spread the disease to Canada, [00:10.10]Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore. [0...
[00:05.51]The Clinton administration has declared the disease AIDS a threat to the national security of the United States. [00:14.92]White House officials say they hope the action will help build support for programs to fight the disease around the w...
In many countries, prostate cancer is among the leading causes of cancer deaths in men. Doctors rely on a blood test called PSA (prostate-specific antigen) to screen for the disease. But there are big problems with the PSA test. Now, the researchers...
A child being vaccinated against polio A new effort is underway to vaccinate people in the four countries where polio outbreaks still occur. If this effort is successful, polio could be eradicated worldwide. Derek Henkle met the 88-year-old Australia...
When you picture ancient Egyptian beauties such as Queen Nefertiti or Cleopatra, theyre probably wearing dramatic black eyeliner. Ancient Egyptians believed that eye makeup had properties bestowed by the gods that protected the wearers from illness....
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. Today we tell about the latest research and treatments for Parkinson's disease. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: In some patients, doctors place elec...
Kenya, with nearly a quarter of its 38 million people facing severe hunger, is now reporting a rapid spread of diseases affecting the country's vital wheat and banana crops. The crisis is being exacerbated by plummeting public confidence in the coun...
This is a white-footed mouse in Lyme Connecticut. This is the bacterial disease inside the mouse in Lyme Connecticut. These are the deer ticks sucking the blood of the mouse that has the bacterial disease in Lyme Connecticut. This is the tick that's...
