AS IT IS 2013-05-10 Air Pollution Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Disease From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is. Im Caty Weaver. Welcome back! Cardiovascular diseases kill about 17 million people around the world every year. Heart attacks and...
US Plays Unique Role in Fighting Deadliest Diseases Looking back over 25 years ago, there was no AIDS cure. Treatment was limited. The diagnosis ... a death sentence. Two American doctors, Eric Goosby and Anthony Fauci, were there at the beginning an...
Doctors Say Most Heart Disease Preventable No one would have guessed that Barbara Teng would have a heart attack. She was not overweight. She did not smoke. But she also did not exercise. In 2004, the week after I turned 49, when I was on a business...
Health Report - Refugee Camps are a Breeding Ground for Disease This is the VOA Special English Health Report. United Nations aid agencies say hundreds of thousands of refugees are living in unacceptable conditions at camps. These people fled their h...
Searching for Animal Disease Transmission Researchers are not waiting for the next new disease to emerge. Theyre studying our near and distant primate relatives to try to prevent future epidemics. HIV/AIDS is a well-known zoonotic disease, an illness...
Agriculture Report - Deadly Maize Disease Threatens Food Supplies in Kenya This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Officials in Kenya are attempting to deal with a deadly disease attacking maize crops. Some Kenyan farmers say the disease...
Study Looks at Role Airports Play in Spread of Disease, Pandemics Airports and planes move more than only people. They have also transported diseases such as influenza, SARS, and turburculosis. Yatta Montrell is flying to Hong Kong and Malaysia from...
Animal-to-Human Disease Cycle Widening Nearly two-and-a-half billion people become ill every year from diseases transmitted from animals. Most are in low- and middle-income countries. A new study lists the top geographical hotspots for these diseases...
Health Report - A Campaign Against Alzheimer's Disease This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last week, the United States government announced a major education and research campaign against Alzheimer's disease. The brain-wasting disease has...
Health Report - A Campaign Against Alzheimer's Disease 健康报道 - 美国出台计划对抗阿尔茨海默氏症 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。 Last week, the United States governmen...