They used a system of measurement called the Body Mass Index to define words like obese and overweight.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

The Nobel committee said the book "is like a surgical operation on one of the most delicate parts of the social body."

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Some of the diseases attack just one area of the body, like the skin, eyes or muscles.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

A lot of things happen as the body reacts to an injury like a broken bone.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Some of the diseases attack just one area of the body, like the skin,eyes or muscles.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

People since ancient times have used aspirin-like medicines to fight pain and reduce high body temperature.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

Find a hard surface like a chair and rest your body on it.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

Some medicines,like Prussian blue pills, can help expel radioactive elements from the body.

VOA: special.2011.03.30

Those bullets look like mushrooms, and do not enter the body.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

It looked a little like the body of an airplane.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Christian Rossiter has said that he felt like a prisoner in his own body, unable to move or carry out the most basic of tasks.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14