2022-02-07 Popular Houseplants for 2022
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many people around the world started spending a lot more time indoors. That’s where…
2022-02-03 Omicron Increases Worries about ‘Long COVID’
Nancy Rose, who contracted COVID-19 in 2021 and continues to exhibit long-haul symptoms including brain fog and memory difficulties, pauses while organizing her desk space, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, in…
2022-02-02 US Considers COVID Vaccine for Children under 5
Medical official tests child, 5, for COVID in California on Jan 6, 2022 (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) In an unusual move, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urged…
2022-02-02 Scientists Following Sub-versions of COVID Omicron
FILE – People wait in line at a COVID testing site in NYC on Dec. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) The highly infectious Omicron variant of coronavirus is known…
2022-01-31 Study: Cannabis Compound CBD May Help Prevent, Treat COVID
In this file photo, a marijuana leaf is displayed at Canna Pi medical marijuana dispensary in Seattle, Washington, on November 27, 2012. (REUTERS/Anthony Bolante) A new study provides evidence that…
2022-01-31 COVID Arrives in One of the Last Places Without It
FILE – In this March 30, 2004, file photo, Tarawa atoll, Kiribati, is seen in an aerial view. When the coronavirus began spreading around the world, the island nation of…
2022-01-26 As Omicron Variant Slows, Health Officials Offer Hope
A health worker prepares a sample of test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), after cases of the Omicron variant were detected in Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 20, 2022. (REUTERS/Diego Vara)…
2022-01-25 US Researchers Announce Another Pig to Human Transplant
In this photo provided by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, surgeons prepare to transplant kidneys from a genetically modified pig into the body of a deceased recipient in September…
2022-01-25 Experts: More Variants after Omicron Likely
FILE – People wait in line for a COVID-19 test at a mobile testing site in Paramount, California, Jan. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Scientists warn that the fast-spreading…
2022-01-25 New Year’s Resolutions for Gardeners
Jeff Lowenfels writes that clumps of African fountain grass can be used to replace standard lawn grass. Tall, clumping grasses are ideal for reducing the size of lawns, a worthy…
2022-01-24 How a Boy Helps Scientists Learn about Autism
A research assistant holds up a mouse for Jake Litvag to see. The 16-year-old visited the lab at Washington University in St. Louis. Doctors there are using the mice and…
2022-01-23 British Labs Supply the World with Genetic Information about COVID-19
Research assistants watch the sequencing machines analyzing the genetic material of COVID-19 cases at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, England, Friday, on Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Frank…
2022-01-22 European Countries Consider Living with COVID-19
FILE – People using face masks attend a music concert in Barcelona, Spain, March 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File) Some European countries are making new policies to deal with…
2022-01-21 Study Finds New Evidence Linking Virus to Multiple Sclerosis
This image provided by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shows an illustration of the outer coating of the Epstein-Barr virus, one of the world’s most common viruses. Researchers…
2022-01-17 How Will the Pandemic End?
An employee from the National Health Organization (EODY) prepares a Johnson and Johnson vaccine against COVID-19 at Karatepe refugee camp, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, on December…