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

They sort of teach us why it's so important to respect the elderly.

这本书告诉了我们,为什么要尊重老人。

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There's great inequality among the elderly and that's a problem.

老年人间存在巨大的不平等,这是一个问题。

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It arrived quickly. But ninety percent has gone to health care for the elderly and education programs.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

(OMITTED) Today he is delivering free meals to the elderly in Maryland through a program called Meals on Wheels.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

A severe respiratory illness was affecting young people, contrary to seasonal viruses that often attack the elderly.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

But it turned out the elderly patients had fewer adverse effects from the drugs than younger patients.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

They were randomly chosen from data of the U.S.government's medical assistance program for the elderly,called Medicare.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

"There are also shortages in terms of having providers who will work with the elderly.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Buses transported the elderly South Koreans to North Korea's Kumgang Mountain resort, where they got the chance to see family members they left behind in the early 1950s.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

The study shows the risk is greater for the elderly, people with existing heart disease, and people, generally in poor neighborhoods, who live along major roads and highways.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Republicans assert that an expanded government rolewould threaten the current private system, separate from the federally administered Medicare system for the elderly, and add to the government budget deficit.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Heart pumps are not just for the elderly.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

Mr.Obama says he is standing by his pledge to freeze spending for three years in all areas except national security, and programs funded through special taxes that help the elderly and the poor.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

He denounced the belief in traditional witchcraft, saying those who live in fear of spirits and threatening powers are disoriented and bewildered and end up condemning street children and the elderly as sorcerers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

But experts say they are encouraged that the virus seems to be hitting hardest among people of middle age, sparing the more vulnerable groups - the elderly and children under the age of five.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Mr.Obama sought to dispel the notion that he wants the federal government to control all health care, or that he plans to radically cut the government program that already subsidizes medical care for the elderly.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

At a news conference,Wednesday members of the Congressional Black Caucus and officials of groups representing African-Americans and other minorities criticized what they called "lies" circulated by opponents of health care reform including suggestions that it is socialism and would reduce care for the elderly.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The intensive care patients were then compared to elderly patients assigned to other hospital units or in the general Medicare population.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

They had minutes to scramble up the mountain. Vivi,his brother and cousin carried their elderly father on a section of metal fencing.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

Most are elderly and these reunions may be the only chance for many to see long-lost relatives.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

The study looked at leptin levels in more than 700 elderly adults who did not have dementia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

And tens of thousands of elderly Koreans have not seen family members they left behind since the North invaded the South in 1950.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

More than one million elderly are survivors of intensive care in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Yet for elderly people, the wounds of war,still remain.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

After an urgent meeting in Cairo, more than a dozen Arab health ministers agreed to prevent young and elderly Hajj candidates, as well as those with health problems, from traveling to Saudi Arabia for the annual event.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23