At the same time, skyrocketing rates of kidney failure, caused by diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, make it urgent to offer more - and more sophisticated - transplants.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

"As you can say for this demonstration I think they should focus more - I mean truly focus - on what the working class or the labor unions really need."

VOA: standard.2009.03.09

This brought in their writing skills. After we talk about all of them, we will write the numbers down - now this is three and two more - before we even tell them the plus sign, you know,how to join things together."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

In nineteen eighty-three, he began to study more than twenty-two thousand healthy male doctors over forty years of age.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

They are depressed. Word expert Charles Funk says people have been feeling down in the dumps for more than four-hundred years.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

Or,it can be severe. The National Headache Foundation says more than forty-five million people in the United States suffer chronic headaches.

VOA: special.2011.05.03

But in cases with a known cause the experts say salmonella is responsible for more than one-third of hospitalizations.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

The goal is to reduce monthly payments for five years to no more than thirty-one percent of the borrower's monthly income.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

The study found that more than one-third of the pictures in women's magazines showed babies in unsafe sleep positions.

VOA: special.2009.08.26

She demands that her racing sponsors be eco-friendly and she is pushing her sport to become more eco-friendly too.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

More than one-fourth of the four million newborns who die each year around the world were born too early.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Organizers said the two-hour broadcast raised more than fifty-seven million dollars in the first day through telephone, online and text.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

A report from the e-Marketer research group predicts that worldwide,tablet sales will reach more than eighty-one million in two thousand twelve.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

The study also found that more than one-quarter of American adults have left the religion in which they were raised.

VOA: special.2010.03.05