Category: Health & Lifestyle (健康 & 生活)

Health problems related to climate change are getting worse, says two recently published reports by the medical publication Lancet. The reports followed 44 health measures connected to climate change around…

American drug-maker Pfizer says a smaller dose of its COVID-19 vaccine appears safe and 91 percent effective at preventing infections in 5- to 11-year-old children. The company released a study…

Doctors have successfully attached a kidney from a genetically engineered pig to a human body. The organ worked normally giving hope that it could be a major step forward to…

Nobody ever said gardening offers immediate results. That is what Lee Reich warns in his latest report in a series for the Associated Press about gardening. With this limitation in…

The Food and Drug Administration asked food companies to use less salt in more than 150 items as a way to make Americans healthier. The agency targeted manufacturers that sell…

Quillay trees are rare evergreens found mainly in the South American country of Chile. And they are increasingly important to producing new vaccines. The native Mapuche people have long used…

The African Union’s top health official wants to get the world’s first approved malaria vaccine to African countries as soon as possible. This comes one day after the World Health…

American scientists say they have created a vaccine patch that provides greater protection against infectious diseases than traditional injections. A 3D printer is used to make the patch, which is…

In the past few years, Lee Reich, a well-known gardener, has planted several sorts of nuts, including Hazelnuts. Hazelnuts come from the hazel tree. They are often eaten and ground…

Researchers in Uganda have discovered evidence of a drug-resistant form of malaria. Health officials fear the finding could make the top drug used against the disease useless if the resistant…

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have found a new way to handle food waste. They are turning unused durian fruit coverings, or husks, into antibacterial bandages. The…

American drug-maker Merck said Friday that its experimental pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half among people infected with COVID-19 in a drug trial. The drug-maker said it will soon…

Hospitals and nursing homes around the United States are worried about possible shortages of workers as deadlines arrive for health care employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The orders take…

In Thailand, taxicabs are giving new meaning to the term “rooftop garden.” People are using the rooftops of parked vehicles to grow vegetables. Many taxicabs in Thailand have lost business…

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus crisis a “pandemic” on March 11 of 2020. The WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that day, “Pandemic is not a word…