It happens more commonly in women,children, the elderly and those who use their voice a lot in their jobs.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

This happens when an official language is used more often and children stop learning the local language of their parents.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

At home,children living with a sick adult are more likely to live in poverty and face physical and emotional abuse.

VOA: special.2011.06.08

UNICEF is appealing for more than one billion dollars in aid for women and children around the world.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

Asthma affects more than seven million children each year and is considered one of the leading childhood illnesses.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

It involved more than one thousand one hundred children between the ages of eight and fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

And more than twenty children in Bangladesh died last year after being given acetaminophen.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

And the third is the reporter's story as she becomes close to the Lacks children and helps them learn more about their mother's influence on medical science.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Woody and Marjorie had several more children after Cathy Ann's death.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

As a result,primary school attendance in Kenya increased by more than one million children and secondary school attendance jumped 10 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"It's threatening our children." "It's threatening our families and, more importantly, it's threatening the future of this nation."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Here in the United States, Asian,African-American,Hispanic, and Native American children have higher rates of death and more illness compared to their white children.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

When the targeted area was cleaned up Thursday morning and the first truck was loaded, village children suggested they take more bags into other neighborhoods.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Pillay says some of the most pervasive forms of discrimination and exploitation experienced by children have become more widespread and known since the adoption of the Convention.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

Wooden is survived by his two children, seven grandchildren, and many more players who played for him and the millions of fans of his coaching and teaching.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

And the more words the children hear, the greater their vocabulary."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

He told VOA Sports that while he feels sorry for those who had to miss it, it likely made his experience with his wife and two small children more satisfying.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

If the vaccine campaign fails to take off in Europe, the society says, the swine flu pandemic may even spread more widely and cause more deaths, particularly among children and young adults.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

U.N.Special Representative Radhika Coomaraswamy says during the past year, a significant number of child soldiers were released by the National Liberation Forces in Burundi and more children are to be released in the Central African Republic and the Philippines as a result of active intervention by the United Nations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16