Scientists Create Method to Test Food and Drugs for Purity Millions of people in developing countries have to be on guard against contaminated food and medicine. Some products could be harmful -- even deadly. In Nigeria, brake fluid was found in a pr

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(三)月

By Brian Padden Alaska 30 June 2006 Watch Avian Report They face no passport controls or border police. They come unchecked by the thousands, and because they do, authorities in the United States fear they could be a potentially lethal threat. They

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A Crisis in Pain Drugs Leads to Greater Use of Acupuncture American veteran Jeff Harris was one of the first people to ask for acupuncture when veterans hospital in Providence, Rhode Island began to offer it. I don't like taking pain medication. I do

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Can US Win its War on Drugs? Anthony Papa spent 12 years in prison for attempting to deliver 125 grams of cocaine, his first and only try. His profit would have been $500. Although he discovered his talent for art behind bars, others suffered. I was

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Using Illegal Drugs Nancy: So, what do you think? Ron: Uh, that was interesting. Nancy: Thats all you have to say? I spent six months making this anti- drug film to show students in schools to try and deter illegal drug use. Ron: Well, Im not sure if

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TRANSCRIPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST ON 10 MARCH 2000 I make no apologies for returning to the subject of drugs so soon. As I said three weeks ago, the threat drugs pose to our children is something which terrifies all parents. Some of you m

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - New American Policy on AIDS Drugs By Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, May 24, 2004 This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English Development Report. The United States has announce

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By Carol Pearson Washington, D.C. 22 June 2007 Studies show that women with a strong family history of breast cancer -- meaning their mothers, sisters, aunts or grandmothers had the disease -- have a higher risk of getting breast cancer, too. But a

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By Leta Hong Fincher Washington, DC 22 June 2006 watch North Korea Missile report President Bush has warned North Korea against testing a long-range missile as tension continues to mount over Pyongyang's intentions. U.S. officials are considering ac

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A new way of taking tuberculosis drugs shows promise in laboratory tests. Instead of taking a pill or getting a shot, patients would inhale their medicine to get the drug deep into the lungs. Tuberculosis is one of the world's most serious health cha

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In South Africa, people with HIV are dying because they dont have access to the medicine that would keep them alive. The government has pledged to provide antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to many of the HIV-positive people who need them. The pills bolster

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Most drugs have side effects, but sometimes it's actually good news. For example, what if the side effects of a cheap and common drug would actually help you fight off the flu? This is not as far-fetched as it might seem, as NPR sc

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HEALTH REPORT - Blood Pressure Drugs May Prevent Dry Eye Syndrome By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Many people around the world suf

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HEALTH REPORT - Spending Up for Behavior-Related Drugs for Children By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. More and more children take medi

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As we recover from the holiday weekend, theres some intoxicating news on curbing the effects of alcohol. In the May 29th issue of Cell, scientists report discovering a gene that controls fruit flies sensitivity to ethanol. And if that just sounds li

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HEALTH REPORT - How Antiviral Drugs Work By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A representation of how viruses attack a cell. Here is

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HEALTH REPORT - AIDS Drugs in a Gel May Help Protect Women From H.I.V. By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. Two major dru

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In the 1980s, France was carrying out nuclear weapons tests on small islands in the South Pacific. Greenpeace was preparing to visit Mururoa in French Polynesia to protest about Frances nuclear tests. The Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, was tie

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BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Police have resolved 185,000 criminal cases during a one-year sweep of counterfeit and substandard food and drugs, the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday. A total of 147,000 underground facilities, which manufac

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DNA Helps Catch Poachers 科学家们利用一种革命性的基因技术成功确定了走私犯屠宰大象的非洲地区,这些大象沦为全世界非法象牙贸易的受害者。利用非洲大象的DNA图谱,他们已发现最近缉获的象

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