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World Breastfeeding Week was celebrated the first week of August. The celebration is now in its nineteenth year. It grew out of a meeting organized […]

A miscarriage is the natural loss of a pregnancy before the twentieth week. This happens to as many as twenty percent of known pregnancies. Experts […]

A mother in Washington noticed something unusual one day, just before her daughter’s eighth birthday. She thought her daughter was developing breasts. When they went […]

Health experts are calling for action to expand cancer care and control in the developing world. A paper published by the medical journal Lancet says […]

I’m Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people […]

I’m Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Health Report. World Suicide Prevention Day was September tenth. This year’s observance was meant to bring attention […]

Vaccines and chest compressions are both ways to save lives. Now, separate new reports say each could save more lives if they were used more. […]

Every year, one million women around the world are found to have breast cancer. Almost two hundred thousand others are told they have ovarian cancer. […]

Every few years, two groups do a study of how many Americans wash their hands after using the toilet. These groups are the American Society […]

Rachel Valltos and Evan Sapperstein are dentists who share an office and a life together near Washington, D.C. In nine years of marriage, they have […]