Study: Past COVID Infection Could Protect Against Colds A new study suggests that people infected with COVID-19 in the past may receive protection against some kinds of common colds. COVID-19 is one of several coronaviruses known to affect humans. Th...
Olympic Athletes Turn to Diabetes Technology in Medal Chase Medical device companies Abbott and Dexcom make small devices that attach to the skin and monitor the amount of glucose, or sugar, in the blood. These devices were first made to help people...
Poorly-paid Healthcare Workers Leaving Africa Cameroon has one of the world's lowest amounts of health care workers per capita. About a third of trained doctors who completed medical school last year left the West African country. Many doctors and nu...
US Workers Secretly Take Workations From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. In the United States, a quiet change is happening at work. Many workers are taking workations. This is when employees work remotely from a vacation pl...
Scientists Test mRNA Vaccines to Protect Against Bird Flu From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. Scientists are testing next-generation vaccines to deal with the spread of bird flu in the United States. The vaccines use the s...
Researchers Find Gene behind Disorder Causing Intellectual Disability Scientists have found the genetic root of a disorder that causes intellectual disability. They say the disorder may affect as many as one in 20,000 young people. Those with the dis...
Researchers Study Gentler Cancer Treatments Reduced treatment for three kinds of cancer can make life easier for patients without hurting results, doctors reported recently at the worlds largest cancer conference. The findings are part of a long-term...
Despite Demand, No Takers for Care-worker Jobs From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. The hardest part of Culix Wiboneles first job in long-term care was not getting hurt. Wibonele is from Kenya. In 2014, she worked as a cert...
Set No-buy Rules to Save Money, Cut Waste Some Americans have been setting their own no-buy rules in an attempt to reduce wasteful spending and save money. Creating no-buy rules themselves can be easy. People simply make a list of non-essential thing...
What Is the Color of Noise? Can It Help Sleep, Memory? From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. You may have heard of white noise being used to cover or hide background sounds. But now white noise has some colorful competition....
Uganda Targets Yellow Fever with Vaccination, Travel Limits The East African country of Uganda has begun a nationwide yellow fever vaccination campaign. The aim is for the country to protect its population against the viral disease. Yellow fever is s...
Daily Marijuana Use Greater than Daily Alcohol Use in US For the first time, the number of Americans who use marijuana almost every day has grown greater than the number who drink alcohol almost every day. This change, some 40 years in the making, co...
In Sierra Leone, There Is Little Help for Drug Users A low-cost drug mixture is harming young people in the West African country of Sierra Leone. The mixture is called kush. Sierra Leones President Julius Maada Bio declared a state of emergency in Ap...
Pigs in Yoga Class Put People at Ease In the northeastern American state of Massachusetts, people are combining a form of exercise for the body and spirit with pigs. 在美国东北部的马萨诸塞州，人们正在将一种身体和精神锻炼与猪...
Doctors Group: Mothers with HIV Can Breastfeed A top U.S. pediatricians group is making a major policy change about breastfeeding by women with HIV. The group says women infected with HIV can breastfeed their babies as long as they are taking medicat...
