Pygmy Elephants of Borneo

By Caty Weaver Broadcast: September 19, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Environment Report. Scientists have identified the elephants that live on the island of Borneo in Malaysia

World Parks Congress

By Caty Weaver Broadcast: September 26, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Environment Report. Three-thousand activists, scientists, community leaders and government officials atten

Lightning Safety

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: July 2, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. Lightning is the release of electrical energy in the sky. Lightning can start fires. It also

Lance Armstrong and Fighting Cancer with Exercise

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: August 6, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. American bicycle racer Lance Armstrong says he will attempt to set a record next year and wi

Study: Loss of Ozone Slows

By Caty Weaver Broadcast: September 12, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Environment Report. Scientists in the United States have reported some good news about the 1)ozone in the

Mixed Results of Prostate Drug Test

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: July 9, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. An American study has shown mixed results in testing the effects of a drug as a way to preven

New Test for West Nile Virus

by Jill Moss Broadcast: July 23, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. A medical company in Australia, PanBio, has developed a new test for West Nile 1)virus. The test ex

Fats and Alzheimer's Disease

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: July 30, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. A medical study says foods rich in a kind of fat may help prevent Alzheimer's disease. Alzhei

New Evidence for Mediterranean Diet

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: July 16, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. A study done in Greece says people can live longer and healthier lives if they eat what is kn

Public Library of Science

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: August 13, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. Health news and other scientific information generally comes from research published in the

Adherence to Long-term Therapies Report

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: August 20, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says medical progress against disease will have no effect if

Animal Fats and Breast Cancer

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: August 27, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says more than one-million people this year will discover the

Walking to Better Health

By Lawan Davis Broadcast: September 3, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Health Report. Intense physical exercise is not the only way to better health. Studies show that walking se

WTO Drug Agreement

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: September 10, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Trade Organization has agreed to permit poorer nations to import low-co

1)Conjoined Twins

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 29, 2003 This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. Some estimates say that one in as many as eighty-thousand of all births results in two

Anti-Aging Research

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: September 24, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. For many years, researchers have been studying ways to extend life and to improve

Cardiovascular Disease and Women

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 8, 2003 This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says that each year almost seventeen-million people die of

Efforts to Stop Measles

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 15, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. International health leaders meet in Cape Town, South Africa, this week to discuss

Gene Linked to Stroke Risk

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 1, 2003 This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists in Iceland say they have identified the first gene linked to common forms of

New Breast Cancer Drug

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 22, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers say a drug developed several years ago reduces the chance that older wo