Some Americans become doctors by joining the United States Army, Navy,Air Force or Public Health Service.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

The United States Public Health Service and Tuskegee Institute in Alabama studied the effects of the disease syphilis on a group of poor African-American men.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Joseph Goldberger was a doctor for the United States Public Health Service.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

One is a new,phone-based service for expectant mothers from Voxiva, a firm which develops interactive mobile health services.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

The idea behind Britain's health-care system is straightforward, says Michael Summers of the non-profit Patients Association that helps people understand the National Health Service.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"It is relatively cheap for what you get, and it has been in existence for 60 years, so it is well established as a health service and it works,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

But the critics and supporters agree one of the British national health service's biggest challenges, as it enters its seventh decade, are the mounting cost of new technology and medicines, and an aging population.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"Text4baby is the first real m-health service launched in the United States focused on pregnant women, where women can text 51141 Baby or Bebe and register for messages during pregnancy and for the first year of life,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

And,Barbados will mark World Alzheimer's Day with events like a religious service, a health fair and performances by musicians.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

The program will be expanded every two months until fifty-two health centers are offering the service.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

An international news service reported that a private health insurer in Australia announced it was "back in the black with its first profit in three years."

VOA: special.2009.04.26

The Postal Service also wants to shut down some post offices and cut back on funding health care for retired mail carriers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.13

But having a national health-care service does have its advantages in some areas.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"That is including Iraq, Afghanistan,etc. So,the scale of violations that have been committed there and the scale of active killing and death due to a lack of humanitarian service, access to health,etc., exceeds any other catastrophe on the Planet."

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

To slow the spread of the virus and relieve the strain on the country's health system, the government has set up a national pandemic flu service, where people who suspect they're infected can get a diagnosis and prescription for antiviral drugs over the phone or Internet.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31