Category: Health & Lifestyle (健康与生活)

International health experts have agreed on a new definition of what it means for a disease to spread “through the air.” The agreement came after the World Health Organization (WHO)…

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. For people who garden, April is an important month. Whether you live in the northern or southern hemisphere, weather…

A new study has found that 41 percent of cancer drugs receiving accelerated government approval do not improve survival or quality of life. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s)…

Serbian Zeljko Ilicic saved his first horse from death 12 years ago and found his calling. Ilicic is now 43. He set up the Balkan country’s only horse sanctuary in…

Peru’s Andes Mountains might be home to the oldest person ever to have lived — at the age of 124. The South American country’s government has claimed that a man…

United States health officials are warning of an increase in rare bacterial illnesses that can lead to meningitis. It is a serious and often deadly disease in which an outside…

Some of the deadliest diseases to infect humans have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. The virus that causes AIDS, for example, came from chimpanzees. And many…

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. The mental health chatbot Earkick greets users with a friendly-looking panda that could fit easily in a children’s program.…

A new way to fight an extremely aggressive kind of brain tumor is showing promise in two experiments with a small number of patients. For the experiments, scientists took patients’…

The number of marriages in South Korea rose in 2023 for the first time in more than ten years. The increase came after the pandemic which forced some couples to…

March 20 is the United Nations’ International Day of Happiness. For many years, northern European countries, especially Finland, have been named among the happiest countries on Earth. The United States…

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. In 2021, the U.S. food and drug agency approved the drug Wegovy for weight loss. Now, the Food and…

A new study examines possible harm caused by microscopic pieces of plastic that end up inside people’s bodies. These materials – known as microplastics and nanoplastics – can enter the…

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health and Lifestyle report. British researchers say they have grown small human organs using cells removed from fluid that protects developing fetuses. These…

Jessica Damiano says crops like tomatoes, garlic, chives, basil, parsley, thyme, and sage have been permanent plants in her garden for ages. Damiano, a gardening expert who writes for The…