Two vaccines developed by a Maryland company are showing promise in the fight against malaria. One vaccine was 100 percent effective in preventing the deadly disease malaria. That is according to the biotech company Sanaria Inc. of Rockville, Marylan

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Chocolate Improves Memory and Heart Health 巧克力可以提高记忆力和心脏健康 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Can eating a chocolate bar every day really prevent age-related memory loss? No. Can eating chocolate cake

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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

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. It can be tough to keep up with dietary trends. Like eating eggs: good for you or bad? But one thing is certain. Taking a multivitamin is a healthy choic

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HEALTH REPORT - Explaining the Placebo EffectBy Staff Broadcast: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:00:00 UTC I'm Katherine Cole with the VOA Special English Health Report. Studies of new drugs traditionally involve

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Fighting words from President Obama in Milwaukee today as Democrats face stiff election-year competition over his handling of the economy. At the Milwaukee Laborfest in Wisconsin today, the president described his critics as more talk than action. So

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – July 22, 2002: Maternal Deaths Study By Jill Moss This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report. Each year, more than five-hundred-thousand women in develop

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Children's mental health was the subject of two recent studies. One involved treatment of anxiety disorders, the other examined long-term effects of alcohol use in teenagers. The first study involved ab

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Health Report - Report Points to Limits of Some Antidepressants Researchers say unpublished studies show Prozac and three similar drugs have significant results only in the most severely depressed. 12 March 2008 This is the VOA Special English Healt

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Most vaccines are designed with the same goal in mind. That is, to help the body's own defense system prevent a disease by producing antibodies against it. Antibodies are disease-fighting proteins. The

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Placebos look the same as real medicines And I'm Faith Lapidus. On our program this week, we will tell about a study of medications that do not contain any re

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There's no reliable blood or tissue test, partly because gluten sensitivity isn't a single disease, 现今没有可靠的血液测试或组织测试来确诊,部分原因是麸质敏感不是单一疾病, and has a number of different possible ca

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Nowadays, it's less common to use placebos this way because of ethical concerns. 如今,通过安慰剂的这种方法已经不常见了,因为涉及到道德问题。 If it's possible to compare a new drug against an older version, 只要将新药

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Australian researchers may have discovered a new way to treat hearing loss in infants. And the secret lies in the NOSE. Our reporter Li Dong has the details. Noses comes in all shapes and sizes, and Australian scientists are now trumpeting a new use

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Science and technology 科学技术 Alternative medicine 替代医疗 Think yourself better 往好处想 Alternative medical treatments rarely work. But the placebo effect they induce sometimes does 替代疗法的治疗效果见效甚微,但是所产

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Science and Technolgy 科技 Forensic science 司法科学 Ignorance is bliss 无知即是福 Forensic scientists know too much about the cases they investigate 法医科学家对他们调查的案子知道得太多 AS ALL fans of crime fiction know,

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HARI SREENIVASAN: Some cutting-edge research is giving new hope to cancer patients. Researchers are zeroing in on the causes of specific cancers and are finding dramatically different ways to fight the disease. To explain the latest findings, I'm joi

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3.Put more Garlic in your Diet. 3.多吃大蒜 Anecdotally we all know that a Mediterranean diet is healthy for us. Mediterranean diets are high in products like olive oil and garlic. 相传地中海式饮食十分健康,里面放有大量橄榄油和

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It was once thought that only time could mend a broken heart, but now scientists think popping a couple of aspirin might be the best way to get over a break-up. 和恋人分手时,我们原来都认为只有时间可以治愈那颗破碎的心。可是

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All right, ladies, listen up! Hey, Max! 女士们,听好啦!嗨,麦克斯! Hi, Toby. Heads-up, me, her, and, uh... Excuse me, what's your name? 嗨,托比。先说好,我跟她,还有...抱歉,你叫什么名字 Oh, it's cool, we don'

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