VOA慢速英语附字幕:美国考虑批准防止艾滋病病毒药物2012-05-16- Studies show that a drug called Truvada can prevent HIV infections. The pill is taken once a day. Studies showed it was ninety percent effective when people took it every day. It was only half as effective when people did not take it every day.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:你有被笑话恐惧症吗？2012-05-09
- Being laughed at is a common fear. But a major study published in two thousand nine found that this fear is not the same around the world. It differs from culture to culture.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:Language Has Risks for Health Translators2012-05-02
- Translators Without Borders is an American nonprofit group. It provides language services to nongovernmental organizations such as, yes, Doctors Without Borders. The group recently trained some new translators in Nairobi in how to put health information into local languages for Kenyans.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:Mouth X-Rays and the Brain; Infected Gums Do Not Cause Heart Attacks2012-04-26
- A new study suggests that dental X-rays may increase the risk of the most common kind of brain tumor. However, experts say the risk of these mostly non-cancerous growths is still very small.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:Dementia Cases May Triple by 2050 as World Ages2012-04-18
- Dementia is the loss of mental abilities caused by brain disorders that affect memory, thinking, behavior and judgment. The most common cause of dementia, especially in older people, is Alzheimer's disease. It causes up to seventy percent of dementia cases.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:非政府组织建议缅甸政府开放医疗援助行动2012-04-11
- Health workers are warning about the spread of a form of drug-resistant malaria. The malaria is resistant to treatment with artemisinin. It was first seen several years ago in Cambodia.
- VOA慢速英语:Why Getting Dirty Can Be Healthy for Children2012-04-04
- A new study suggests that early exposure to germs strengthens the immune system. That means letting children get a little dirty might be good for their health later in life.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:印度农村地区缺乏医疗资源导致巫医盛行2012-03-28
- Rural areas of India may have few doctors or other health resources. Instead, many people use traditional healers. These faith-based healers, or witch doctors, sometimes have strange theories about how the body works.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:大出血导致大量妊娠死亡2012-03-22
- The World Health Organization has been recommending several ways to reduce the risk of hemorrhage immediately after birth. These include giving the mother a hormone called oxytocin.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:对于提高睡眠质量的科学研究2012-03-14
- Sleep-disordered breathing is a term for a group of conditions that can interfere with normal breathing while people sleep. These include snoring, mouth-breathing and sleep apnea.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:冷静屋帮助吸毒者戒除毒瘾2012-03-08
- Tourists come to Zanzibar for its white sand beaches and historic buildings in Stone Town. But something else also makes its way to the Tanzanian island: heroin trafficked across the Indian Ocean from Asia.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:干细胞培育出卵子可望解决女性不孕2012-02-29
- For years, the thinking has been that women are born with all the eggs their bodies will ever produce. In fact, this has been the thinking not just about humans but all mammals.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:标准化患者帮助医学院教学2012-02-22
- About seven hundred standardized patients work in the area. Pay starts at seventeen dollars an hour. It can go as high as thirty-five dollars an hour depending on the project.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:网络交友与女性声音对男性的吸引力2012-02-16
- For example, in recent days, researchers announced new findings about online dating sites. These are now among the most popular ways for singles to meet. Many sites say they have a special formula to find the perfect partner. But the researchers say these claims are unsupported and likely false.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:抗击10种容易被忽视的热带疾病2012-02-09
- A new campaign aims to fight ten diseases that affect many of the world's poorest people but do not get much attention. Officials last week announced the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:What Happens When TB Becomes Untreatable?2012-02-02
- In December, doctors in Mumbai, India, reported about a group of patients with what they called totally drug-resistant tuberculosis. Indian health officials have been investigating these cases.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:大型活动的健康问题2012-01-25
- Picture a huge public gathering a sea of people like the hajj to Mecca or an appearance by the pope. Think of the World Cup, the Olympics, a political event, a rock concert or a train station in Asia before the Lunar New Year.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:Want to Lose Weight? Try Counting Calories2012-01-18
- How many calories we eat appears more important than what we eat when we eat too much. That was the finding of a new study that should be satisfying to anyone who counts calories for weight control.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:《科学》杂志评选一项艾滋病研究为2011年“年度突破”2012-01-11
- The study was a clinical trial known as HPTN 052. Myron Cohen led an international team that began the study in two thousand seven and announced the results last May. But Dr. Cohen says the work really began twenty years ago.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:美国止痛药等处方药遭滥用2012-01-04
- Officials in the United States say deadly abuse of painkillers and other prescription drugs has reached epidemic levels. More than thirty-six thousand people died from drug overdoses in two thousand eight, the latest year available. That was almost as many as from road crashes.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:健康护齿从出生时开始2011-12-28
- Bad teeth can be painful and worse. They can even be deadly. Infections of the gums and teeth can release bacteria into the blood system. Those bacteria can increase the chances of a heart attack or stroke and worsen the effects of other diseases. And adults are not the only ones at risk.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:治疗蛇毒血清获得新突破2011-12-22
- Researchers are finding new ways to save snakebite victims. Experts discussed the latest findings during a recent meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:创造力也有不好的一面2011-12-15
- Not all cheaters are creative. But apparently enough creative people cheat to interest researchers like Francesca Gino. Professor Gino is a behavioral economist at the Harvard Business School in Massachusetts. Behavioral economists use ideas from psychology to study how people make economic choices.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:科学家研究新疫苗对付疟疾2011-12-08
- Malaria control efforts currently depend on things like chemically treated bed nets and spraying against mosquitoes. But scientists keep trying to find other ways to prevent the disease.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:喷洒杀虫剂控制蚊虫以预防疾病2011-12-01
- Malaria is caused by a parasite spread through the bite of infected mosquitoes. The World Health Organization, in its latest estimate, says the disease caused seven hundred eighty-one thousand deaths in two thousand nine. Most of those deaths were in children in Africa. Worldwide there were two hundred twenty-five million cases of malaria.