By Tendai Maphosa London 18 July 2007 Global AIDS treatment will fall far short of a target to have five million people in Africa being treated in the next few years. A new report reveals that the continued lack of access to drugs by many of the worl...
By Melinda Smith Washington 10 July 2007 A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that older people who carry certain genes are more susceptible to a loss of their central vision. That loss of sight is an advanced form...
By David McAlary Washington 29 November 2006 As World AIDS Day approaches on December 1, activists complain that the international community is falling short of providing treatment for HIV in developing countries. VOA's David McAlary reports that th...
By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 22 June 2006 watch Stem Cell report A new medical treatment injecting embryonic stem cells and other drugs into paralyzed mice has researchers wondering if it could eventually help humans suffering from Parkinson's an...
By Paige Kollock Washington, DC 05 July 2006 watch report Victim of War In Northern Uganda, a civil war has been underway for 19 years between government and the Lord's Resistance Army, led by a man named Joseph Kony. More than 100 people each day d...
By Paige Kollock Washington, D.C. 18 January 2006 view Cancer report Medical experts say it is the biggest breakthrough in more than a decade in the fight against ovarian cancer, a rare but deadly for...
By Greg Flakus San Antonio, Texas 13 January 2006 watch Burn Center report Advances in combat medicine have helped hundreds of badly wounded soldiers in Iraq survive, but many of them need long-term c...
AGRICULTURE REPORT – July 16, 2002: Rules for Treatment of Farm Animals By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. People rarely consider the life of a chicken whose meat the...
Broadcast: Feb 17, 2003 By Jill Moss This the VOA Special English Development Report. Researchers have discovered a successful new treatment to fight lymphatic filariasis around the world. This diseas...
Michael Kitchen The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan says he expects an investigation into the treatment of Afghan detainees in U.S. custody to finish in the next two weeks. Speaking to repo...