AMERICAN STORIES - Doctor Heideggers Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne MARIO RITTER: Now, the VOA Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) We present the short story Doctor Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Here is Barbara Klei...
Doctors, Researchers on Lookout for New Flu Outbreak The H1N1 influenza virus infected about 61 million people during the 2009 pandemic. Dave Cornwell was one of them. I had a fever, I was achy, you know, flu-like symptoms, he described. And while I...
Walking Program Pairs Patients with Doctors These days Mary Halpin loves to walk. This walk is just giving me life, you know. 6 years ago, Halpin could barely walk half a block. Now she can go 20 times longer. Depending upon the block, it can be betw...
Some Accuse US of Hypocrisy Over Pakistan Doctor Case U.S. forces found and killed Osama bin Laden after Dr. Shakil Afridi gathered some information for them. He was accused of running a fake vaccination campaign designed to help the CIA collect DNA...
'Solar Suitcase' Aids Doctors in Developing World Every expectant mother wants a healthy baby. But many clinics in sub-Saharan Africa lack the basics that doctors and nurses need to ensure safe deliveries for parent and child. One of these basics is...
US Doctors See Surge In Newborns Addicted To Mothers' Pain Pills In delivery rooms across the United States, doctors are seeing more and more mothers addicted to prescription pain killers. The increase is so great that Dr. Stephen Patrick at the Univ...
German doctors who have examined jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko have appealed to the president to let her be moved abroad for treatment. Karl Einhaeupl, head of Berlin's Charite university hospital, told reporters Friday that his...
Doctors Call World's First Full Face Transplant A Resounding Success It's been little more than six years between this news conference in France and this one at the University of Maryland Medical Center. In 2005, French doctors stunned the world by a...
US Doctor Prescribes Food as Medicine In 2000, Ronnie Sampson, 52, was diagnosed with neurosarcoidosis, a disease that tricks the immune system into attacking certain parts of the body. Sampsons doctor put him on prednisone, a corticosteroid that hel...
Doctors Report Rise in Obesity-Related Cancers in US The American Cancer Society says in its annual report that fewer Americans are dying of cancer, but doctors are seeing more patients with cancers linked to obesity, including pancreatic and kidney...