Human parents usually have one or sometimes two offspring at a time, and when babies get delivered we pour all our energy into child rearing. But other animals raise lots of babies at once. And the weaker individuals can be at a big disadvantage. If

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年Scientific American(十二)月

WHO Launches Plan for Better Health Care in Developing Countries WHO将为发展中国家提供更多医疗服务 Major donors are changing the way they fund health programs in low-income countries. The results in maternal and child health have been

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2013年(十二月)

Newborns Face Severe Infections 新生儿面临严重的传染病感染危险 A new study estimates that nearly 7-million newborns a year suffer life-threatening infections. Most go untreated. The infections include sepsis, meningitis and pneumonia.

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Puerto Rico is grappling with a severe Zika outbreak. We still don't know how many people have been infected since the mosquito-borne virus appeared on the U.S. territory more than a year ago. Nearly 40,000 cases of Zika have been

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Women in the United States are more likely to die from childbirth complications than in other developed countries, and the problem's getting worse. One way to stop the deaths is to do fewer C-sections. Martha Bebinger at WBUR in Bo

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【今日基础词】 Improvement 【Transcript】 A: I saw a photo on internet just now; its a photo of a big family. B: There must be many people in it. A: Yeah, 150 members of Gao in De Chang county took the photo. B: How great the family is! A: I

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图片1 Babies are special little people that have vocabulary special to them. In this episode, we look at vocabulary for before the baby gets here, when the mother is in labour, and after the baby is born and starts to grow. Do you know what a onesi

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图片1 Babies are special little people that have vocabulary special to them. In this episode, we look at vocabulary for before the baby gets here, when the mother is in labour, and after the baby is born and starts to grow. Do you know what a onesi

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HEALTH REPORT - October 23, 2002: Folic Acid Reduces Fetal Deaths By Nancy Steinbach This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study in Sweden has confirmed another important health effect

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VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the world's most famous doctor for children, Benjamin Spock. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Doctor Benjamin Spock with grand-daughter

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A premature baby in a hospital in Istanbul, Turkey Each year millions of babies are born too soon and too small. Premature or preterm births are defined as births at less than thirty-seven weeks. P

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A study in rural Nepal found a greater chance that babies would survive their first month. Transcript of radio broadcast: 08 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study in rural Nepal shows the value of washing hands with so

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Health Report - The Global Problem of Preterm Births This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Premature or preterm births are defined as live births before a woman completes thirty-seven weeks of pregnancy. A new study found that about fifteen

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Ethiopia Cuts Child Deaths by Two-Thirds埃塞俄比亚三分之二削减儿童死亡 28 February, 2014 2014年2月28日 Hello again, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. I'm Steve Ember in Washington. 大家好,欢迎,因为它是来

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By David McAlary Washington 30 January 2006 The first international survey of birth defects shows that they are common around the world. The March of Dimes charitable foundation finds that about 6% of

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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

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World Prematurity Day Aims to Lower Rates of Premature Births This tiny newborn is one of more than 15 million babies who start their lives with a major disadvantage...being born too soon. Preterm birth is the greatest killer of newborns around the w

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Low-Cost Incubator May Save More Babies 低成本保温箱为早产婴儿迎来生存希望 Each year, about 1 million babies throughout the world die of complications due to premature birth. Many of them could have been saved if given access to an i

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By William Eagle Washington 04 July 2007 In Africa, experts say the deaths of thousands of infants each year from low body temperature, or hypothermia, pneumonia and other illnesses that can strike a child within days of delivery. One way thats gaini

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Why Giving Birth Hurts 为什么生孩子很痛苦? Y: Don, you sure are lucky dont have to give birth. Im glad were an intelligent species, but boy, that infant head feels mighty large going through that narrow birth canal. And then, after all tha

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