Archive for March, 2009
Understanding Down Syndrome
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
Deep inside each cell in our body is all the genetic information needed for life. Human genes are normally organized along forty-six chromosomes — twenty-three from each parent.
David Petersohn of Liberty, Missouri, reads with his daughter Darcie, who has Down syndrome
But as a result of a mistake in [...]
Teenagers and Pregnancy
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
A 16-year-old mother with 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 pregnancy rate has fallen thirty-eight percent since the early nineteen nineties.
And the National Campaign to [...]
New Findings on Children and Mental Illness
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
People who are schizophrenic sometimes hear voices or see things that are not real. They might believe other people want to hurt them. They can become fearful and socially withdrawn.
Schizophrenia is explained on the National Institute of Mental Health Web site as a brain disorder that is severe [...]
