How often do you donate blood? Once a year? Once every few years? Never? Would you be willing to do it every few weeks? That is what James Harrison of Australia has been doing for almost 60 years. In that time he has donated blood over 1,000 times. J

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Influenza, or the flu, attacks up to one billion people annually. In the US, it kills 20,000 annually, most of whom are children or elderly. Occasionally the flu becomes pandemic: in 1918, it killed 20 million people worldwide. The flu is a very cont

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Some outbreaks in eastern Europe have started in communities of Roma (gypsies). 东欧的某些疾病爆发于罗马(吉普赛人)的社区, Members of this poor and ostracised minority are shunned by health workers and often go unvaccinated. 这

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HEALTH REPORT - Cervical Cancer Vaccine Moves Toward U.S. ApprovalBy Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 I'm Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English Health Report. A Merck research fact

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Most people think of influenza as a common health problem -- not a serious condition. Yet an influenza infection can be deadly, especially in older adults, young children and people with weak or failing health. Every year, less than half of all adult

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Good morning. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Thanks for starting your day with us. It is March 13th. Got a lot going on, but first want to get you caught up on some of the top stories keeping our eye on for you, including this one. Former Secretary of State Hen

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盖茨:慈善也依赖于创新 WASHINGTON Bill Gates, one of the world's leading inventors, businessmen and donors, said that philanthropy, like technology, depends on innovation to achieve the best possible results. Gates said in Washington Thurs

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Canada will ship 800 vials of its experimental Ebola virus disease vaccine, VSV-EBOV, to the World Health Organization, Ottawa announced Saturday. The Ebola vaccine will be sent in three shipments. Human clinical trials of VSV-EBOV began Monday after

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So glad you are with us everyone. I'm Catherine Callaway at the CNN center in Atlanta, with a look at what's happening Now In The News. A suicide bomber killed 35 people who were standing in line waiting for their paychecks in Pakistan this morning.

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Germanys Harald zur Hausen and Frances Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi share the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded October 6th. Barre-Sin

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. A federal trial is underway in San Francisco to determine whether the US Constitution bars states from outlawing same-sex marriages. The proceedings began in controversy as the US Supreme Court weighed

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about a fat cell gene linked to colon cancer. We will also tell about new developments in the fight against the

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Emergency hospital during 1918 influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, our subject is influenza, commonly called the flu. W

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Broadcast: April 16, 2003 By Nancy Steinbach This is the VOA Special English Health Report. American researchers say the vaccine medicine that can prevent the disease chicken pox may also provide prot

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UNITED NATIONS, April 15 (Xinhua) -- A new polio vaccine will be rolled out next week to replace the one which protects against all three strains of wild poliovirus. It marked the beginning of the largest and fastest globally coordinated rollout of a

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科学家开发防艾滋病长效药 WASHINGTON, March 4 (Xinhua) -- A single injection of an experimental drug may someday protect people from infection with the AIDS virus for up to three months, a U.S. study said Tuesday. The study, published in t

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The Zika virus outbreak in Latin America could be a bigger threat to global health than the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in Africa. That's according to several public health experts who spoke with the Guardian and Examiner newsp

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Science and technology 科学技术 Combating addiction 抵抗毒瘾 Can a vaccine stop drug abuse? 有抗毒品的疫苗么? It may be possible to vaccinate people against addictive drugs 也许通过接种疫苗帮助人们摆脱毒瘾将成为可能

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A 44-year-old man from South Korea is being treated in isolation. Medical staff say he suffers from a high fever and a possibly infectious pneumonia. According to authorities, the man had close contact with his father and sister, the third and fourth

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