By Melinda Smith Washington 07 November 2007 Cholesterol reducing drugs are some of the most common medications prescribed around the world. They are highly beneficial in reducing heart disease. Now they are gaining new respect as a drug that may del...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 October 2007 A Kenyan diplomat, who helped negotiate the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the Sudanese government and southern rebels two years ago, is urging Khartoum to quickly implement key elements of...
By Mandy Clark London 08 October 2007 The fate of hundreds of refugees from Sudan's Darfur region may well hinge on what happens in Britain's House of Lords. The highest court in Britain is deciding whether it is safe to return Darfuri asylum seekers...
By Phuong Tran Dakar, Senegal 05 October 2007 Hundreds of Africans, mostly young men, try every week to board fishing canoes headed for Spanish territory. Some make it, but thousands are caught, detained and sent back to Africa. Phuong Tran met with...
Training for a marathon or an Ironman, how much you drink is important. Of course, there's the risk of dehydration, but athletes now know they can also get into trouble by drinking too much which dilute levels of sodium in the blood. The death of on...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 07 March 2007 The United Nations is focusing attention on child soldiers in Africa. One country where children are still feeling the terrible effects of war is the Democratic Republic of Congo. VOA's Nico Colombant reports fro...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 08 December 2006 U.N. aid agencies are stepping up humanitarian assistance to three flood-stricken countries in the Horn of Africa. The agencies are warning the risk of epidemics breaking out in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia is...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 06 October 2006 A Pakistani boy runs past the ruins near his family's refugee tent in Muzaffarabad in the Kashmir region of Pakistan, Sept. 23, 2006 International aid agencies say hundreds of thousands of people in northern Pa...
HEALTH REPORT – December 4, 2002: Test Warns of Heart Attack Risk By Jerilyn Watson This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Since the nineteen-fifties, American doctors have tested their pati...
By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 1, 2003 This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists in Iceland say they have identified the first gene linked to common forms of...