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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A 16-year-old mother receives care for her baby at a mobile health clinic in Garland, Texas, in a 2006 photo More than seven hundred thousand teenagers a year get pregnant in the United States. The teen

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ESL Podcast 630 – Making a Medical Diagnosis

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