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Alex Schimke is a trim and fit New York sixth grader and he says he likes fruits, particularly strawberries.
Photo: VOA Photo P. Fedynsky

New York City Battles Childhood Obesity

Health officials in New York touting aggressive initiative that has resulted in significant drop in city's childhood obesity rate

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Kim McEvoy and Janet McIntyre, who feel their drinking water has been contaminated by nearby natural gas extraction, do some grassroots organizing around the kitchen table.

Black, Foamy Water Worries Fracking Neighbors

Pennsylvania residents blame illness on natural gas extraction

June Chappel’s home in Washington, Pennsylvania, is surrounded by gas drilling: a waste containment pond behind her and gas tanks to the side.

Rush to Extract Natural Gas Stirs Health Concerns

Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Reservoir holds largest US supply

Rotating shifts have something to do with the large number of police officers with sleep problems.

Study: Sleep Disorders Widespread Among Police

Sleep apnea is most common problem

Developing hypertension in middle age increases a person's risk of heart attack or stroke later in life, according to a new study.

Midlife Blood Pressure Spike Ups Heart Attack Risk

Large study examines impact of hypertension

Breast cancer survivor Dana Dolney, at the Shale Gas Outrage protest in Philadelphia, wants the names of chemicals used in fracking to be publicly disclosed.

Tighter Natural Gas Extraction Rules Debated

Hydraulic fracturing raises health concerns

A medical student in the small town of Salina - population 50,000 - listens to a remote lecture. It's part of a Kansas University program designed to keep doctors in rural areas of the United States.

Rural Medical School Keeps Doctors Local

Kansas University program aims to stop exodus to big cities

Scientists have unraveled the mystery of why some cases of dengue are mild while others are severe.

Dengue Severity Depends on Prior Infection, Genetic Variation

Decoding complex relationship may help vaccine researchers

Colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) reveals some of the form, structure of an Ebola virus (file image).

Kenya Reports Suspected Ebola Fatality

Gladys Muthoni, 29, died in a taxi as she was being rushed to the hospital

Janice and Arielle Schacter at one of the New York subway information booths which is equipped with a hearing loop.

Hearing Aid Common in Europe Turns Up Volume in US

Hearing loops help hard of hearing

An Indonesian man helps  health officials cull poultry in the village where a 14-year-old boy died of bird flu Thursday Jan. 11, 2007

Terrorism Fears Prompt Call for Restrictions on Publishing Virus Research

US asks scientific journals not to publish key details of experiment that created more infectious strains of a deadly bird flu virus

In clinical trials at Johns Hopkins Cancer Center in Baltimore, Maryland, doctors report they successfully pumped cancer-fighting medicine directly into a breast tumor.

New Breast Cancer Treatment Shows Great Promise

Clinical trials at Johns Hopkins Cancer Center in Baltimore, Maryland, show it could eliminate need for surgery in early stages

Naturalist Tim MacWelch shows Tamae and Bob Heilen how to distinguish edible plants from the dangerous ones.

Foragers Sample Nature's Bounty

Wilderness students separate the delicious from the deadly

Sara Stulac (right), consults with colleagues at the Rwinkwavu Hospital in Eastern Rwanda. Stulac, director of pediatrics for Partners In Health, has designed a program which brings Rwandan physicians together with Boston-based pediatric oncologists.

Rwanda Doctors Treat Children with Help from US Specialists

Half of treated lymphoma patients in program survive

A breast cancer patient undergoes a mammography examination.

Vaccine Attacks Breast Cancer in Mice

Experimental protein treatment might protect against other tumors

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