Health & Lifestyle (健康与生活)

2021-11-16 Pfizer to Share Its COVID Pill with Poor Countries

The drug maker Pfizer has signed a deal with a United Nations-supported group to permit other producers to make its experimental COVID-19…

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2021-11-15 Study Suggests Link Between Long Sleep Times, Cognitive Loss

Scientists have long said getting a good night's sleep is important to your health. The U.S. National Institute of Health…

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2021-11-11 Environmentally Friendly Burial Choice: Body Composting

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Outside of the city of Denver, Colorado, a large…

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2021-11-08 Jewelweed in the Garden: Pretty, Possibly Useful

Lee Reich is an expert on gardening who writes about the subject for the Associated Press. Recently, he wrote a story about…

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2021-11-05 Pfizer Says Its COVID Pill 90 Percent Effective

Pfizer said Friday that its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 cut hospitalization and death rates by nearly 90 percent in high-risk adults.…

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2021-11-02 Can New Variants of the Coronavirus Keep Appearing?

New variants of the coronavirus can keep appearing as long as the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic keeps infecting people. But…

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2021-11-01 Rise in Bird Flu Infections Show Risks of Fast-Changing Variants

An increase in the number of people in China infected with bird flu this year is raising concern among experts.…

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2021-10-29 Study: Low-Cost Antidepressant Reduced COVID-19 Hospitalization Risk

A new study has found that a low-cost antidepressant reduced the need for hospitalization among high-risk COVID-19 patients. The drug,…

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2021-10-29 African Scientists Try to Reverse Engineer COVID Vaccines

Young scientists in Cape Town, South Africa are working to reverse engineer the Moderna coronavirus vaccine. That means they will…

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2021-10-28 US Drug-maker to Share Its COVID-19 Pill with Poor Countries

American drug-maker Merck has agreed to let some companies produce its experimental COVID-19 pill. The move, announced Wednesday by a health…

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