2024-06-06 Set ‘No-buy’ Rules to Save Money, Cut Waste
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…
2024-06-06 Despite Demand, No Takers for Care-worker Jobs
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.…
2024-06-03 Uganda Targets Yellow Fever with Vaccination, Travel Limits
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…
2024-06-03 What Is the Color of Noise? Can It Help Sleep, Memory?
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…
2024-06-01 Daily Marijuana Use Greater than Daily Alcohol Use in US
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…
2024-05-30 In Sierra Leone, There Is Little Help for Drug Users
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…
2024-05-28 Pigs in Yoga Class Put People at Ease
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…
2024-05-27 Don’t Have Soil, Try Planting in Straw Bales
You do not need good soil – or even soil at all – to grow plants. Straw bales can work, too. Straw is the dry stems of wheat and other…
2024-05-27 Doctors’ Group: Mothers with HIV Can Breastfeed
A top U.S. pediatricians’ group is making a major policy change about breastfeeding by women with HIV. The group says women infected with HIV can breastfeed their babies as long…
2024-05-26 Electric Spoons, Chopsticks May Help Cut Salt
Researchers in Japan say they will begin selling new devices that will help people reduce how much sodium, or salt, they use to improve the taste of their food. The…
2024-05-20 Study: Gene May Cause Alzheimer’s in Some Cases
For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic form of late-in-life Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s is a disease of the brain that causes people to lose their memory and mental…
2024-05-19 UN Authorizes Second Shot to Fight Dengue in Americas
The World Health Organization recently authorized a second dengue vaccine. The move could provide protection for millions of people worldwide against the mosquito-borne disease. This year, several dengue outbreaks have…
2024-05-16 US Agency Permits Qualified Health Claim for Yogurt
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently permitted yogurt producers to make a health claim on containers of…
2024-05-13 Less or No Alcohol Is Better for Health
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Alcohol is often consumed in social gatherings from happy hours after work to birthday parties on the weekend. Drinking…
2024-05-06 Alzheimer’s Drug Available, But Sales Slow
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Alzheimer’s disease affects a person’s memory, thinking and behavior. The first drug shown to slow the effects of Alzheimer’s…