World-Famous Hospitals Helped Boston Cope With Bombing When bomb victims were wheeled into the Tufts Medical Center Emergency Department, the medical personnel was in place, ready for them. We already had our emergency management team up and running...
Burma Bakehouse Helps Disadvantaged Women Thirty-nine-year-old Ma Moe Nge is learning to bake and said that when her nine-month apprenticeship is over she wants to start her own bakery. Before, I only saw this kind of food, but I didnt know how to ma...
'Decorate a Vet' Helps Military Families on the Holidays The volunteers do everything from fixing patios, to clearing out tree branches, to mulching garden beds. Then they put up Christmas decorations. Today, they're working at the Spraul family's ho...
Home TB Treatment Is Helping Patients in Swaziland Mai Nambuli is still a bit hesitant, but soon she will be the personal nurse for her friend Nosipho Mpama. Mpama has drug-resistant tuberculosis and needs medication injected every day for six months...
Italian Entrepreneurs Turn to Chinese for Help When Renato Bianchi founded the company in the late 1960s the Italian economy was booming. Over the next four decades his company grew from a handful to about 160 employees. But when the global economic...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Learning First Aid: What to Do Until Medical Help Arrives CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Christopher Cruise. Today, Bob Doughty and Pat Bodnar provide a short guide to first aid. (MUS...
Health Report - What Parents Can Do to Help Prevent Dating Abuse This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Today we take another look at teaching young people how to build healthy relationships. Last week we told you about a new study in the Uni...
Therapy Dogs Help US Veterans Beat Stress Disorders Simonsen, the senior enlisted leader at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C. suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury he received while deployed in Afghan...
'Tough Mudder' Course Tests Mettle, Helps US Veterans Tough Mudder is not your typical run in the mountains; it is a world-class military-designed obstacle course. In fact, it's the type of thing you're told never to try at home with gut-wrenching ob...
Helping Victims of Torture Tuesday is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The theme is: Rehabilitation works and is a torture survivors right. June 26th is the 25th anniversary of the U.N. Convention against Torture. When we talk abou...