2022-05-20 What Is Monkeypox, Where Is It Spreading?
European and American health officials have identified several cases of monkeypox recently, mostly in young men. The cases reported in Europe and the United States are raising concern because the…
2022-05-19 North Korea Fights COVID with Leaves and Tea
Most of the world has been dealing with COVID-19 since early 2020. But North Korea only recently admitted it is dealing with a widespread local outbreak of the disease. On…
2022-05-16 How to Grow, Eat Sunflowers
Sunflowers are huge plants with bright yellow flowers. They have a long history in North America. There is evidence they were used for food and for medicine by Native Americans…
2022-05-09 Sharing Our Loneliness May Help Us Feel Less Lonely
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. In English, there is an expression that goes like this: Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and…
2022-05-09 Americans Ideas About Their Lawns Are Changing
A green area of grass called a lawn has been popular in American yards for a long time. But a growing number of gardeners and homeowners now consider the lawn…
2022-05-07 Use of Medication to End Pregnancies Is Rising
A group that supports abortion rights says that drugs are used to carry out more than half of the abortions in America rather than operations. The Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit…
2022-05-07 Comfortable Changes to Office Wear
As Americans slowly return to the office, they are rethinking their clothing choices at work. After two years of working from home in exercise clothes, many people now want to…
2022-05-06 US Restricts Use of J&J’s COVID Shot
American health officials have placed strong restrictions on the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine. The treatment carries a risk of rare but serious blood clots. The United States…
2022-05-05 WHO: Nearly 15 Million Deaths Linked to COVID-19
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its effects on health care systems in the past two years.…
2022-05-03 Study of Cancer Genetics to Help with Targeted Treatment
This microscope image made available by the National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research shows human colon cancer cells with the nuclei stained red. Cancer is a disease of the…
2022-05-02 Choose Native Plants for Your Garden
Purple Loosestrife (left) is an invasive plant that threatens food sources and habitat for wildlife. The Blazing Star also called gay feather (right) is a recommended alternative for invasive purple…
2022-05-02 Study Shows British Patient Had COVID-19 for 505 Days
This undated, colorized electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows SARS-CoV-2, indicated in yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, indicated…
2022-04-28 Moderna Seeks COVID Shots for Children under 6
FILE – Ilana Diener holds her son, Hudson, 3, during an appointment for a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial in Commack, N.Y. on Nov. 30, 2021. Moderna asked U.S. regulators to…
2022-04-26 Invasive Fruit Tree Reported Across the US
FILE – Daniel Patterson, a student at John Handley High School, walks home from school below flowering Bradford pear trees on March 30, 2016 in Winchester, Virginia. (Jeff Taylor/The Winchester…
2022-04-26 Researchers Explore Improvements to COVID Vaccines
A health worker gives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Reading, Pa. COVID-19 vaccinations are at a critical juncture as companies test whether new approaches can keep up with a…