New Ebola Vaccine Proves Effective in Mice U.S. scientists have developed a new vaccine against the deadly ebola virus which has the potential to remain potent after years of storage. Ebola is one of the deadliest viruses known. It kills about nine o...
Micronutrient Powders Effective in Reducing Anemia in Children Nutrients taken in powder form are effective in preventing malnutrition in children, according to new findings. Children throughout the developing world suffer from anemia - a shortage of...
Heart Failure Drug Not as Effective on US Patients Before new drugs are approved for use, they go through a multi-step approval procedure. In recent years, the process has become more globalized, but a new study suggests that the results of clinical...
Treatments Proven Effective in Studies, Work in Real Life Too Evidence-based medicine means just what it says - treatments that have been shown in scientific studies to work. But studies are one thing - do these treatments work as well in real-world...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Finally, science has something you can give people that really does help them lose weight: money. Rewarding dieters with a few hundred dollars is effective for promoti...
U.S. Admiral Mark Fitzgerald says commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean should carry armed guards to help defend against Somali pirates. The area is enormous and we just do not have enough assets to cover every place in the Indian Oce...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is predicting a fight over financial regulatory reform at a town hall meeting in Elyria, Ohio today. The president said he knows there will be heavy opposition to his plan to tighten rul...
By Melinda Smith Washington 31 August 2007 Centuries ago doctors used hypnosis to help relieve the excruciating pain of surgery. It then fell out of favor with the introduction of anesthesia. Now as VOA's Melinda Smith reports, new studies show a hos...
By Al Pessin Brussels 13 June 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the NATO alliance has demonstrated that it can be effective in Afghanistan in spite of continuing shortfalls in the number of troops member-nations are providing. VOA's Al Pe...
Now let's briefly discuss consonants. Much of the clarity of your speech depends upon your pronunciation of the 25 consonants in the English language. Consonants are speech sounds formed by first 1)bl...
