Category: Health & Lifestyle (健康 & 生活)

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…

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Prince Bhojwani never thought of himself as a negative person. But three trips to the hospital in one month…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Reduced treatment for three kinds of cancer can make life easier for patients without hurting results, doctors reported recently at the world’s largest cancer conference. The findings are part of…

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…

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. The hardest part of Culix Wibonele’s first job in long-term care was not getting hurt. Wibonele is from Kenya.…

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…

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…

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…

A low-cost drug mixture is harming young people in the West African country of Sierra Leone. The mixture is called “kush.” Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio declared a state…

In the northeastern American state of Massachusetts, people are combining a form of exercise for the body and spirit with pigs. The yoga classes in Massachusetts are selling out within…