Category: Health & Lifestyle (健康与生活)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Do you spend too many nights trying to fall asleep? You are not alone. Nearly one-third of American adults say they do not get the suggested seven to nine hours…

Less than half of Americans say they are getting enough sleep, according to a recent opinion study by the Gallup organization. The poll found that 57 percent of Americans say…

A new, small robotic camera designed to be swallowed for use in medical examinations was recently demonstrated at a conference in Canada. The device called PillBot can be guided through…