2015-06-01 WHO: Smoking Costs More Than You Think
A single cigarette sold on a street corner may not cost a lot; however, the overall costs of smoking are huge. First, consider the cost of human life. The World…
2015-05-31 Group Helps US Children Learn About Healthy Foods
Our story begins at the John Burroughs Elementary School in Washington, DC. The school’s kindergarten students are staying late today — an hour after classes normally end. The boys and…
2015-05-27 Brain Remembers Language Better If You Sing It
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health and Lifestyle report. Have you ever found yourself in this situation: You hear a song you used to sing when you were…
2015-05-20 Deaf-Blind Woman First to Use New Phone
A deaf and blind woman from Australia has become the first person to make a telephone call using a device that converts speech into Braille. Braille is a form of…
2015-05-17 How We Date: Here, There and Everywhere
If you are in Uganda, what quality could most hurt your chances for getting a date? As a tourist in Myanmar, what is the worst way to meet someone? To…
2015-05-12 Salmonella Turned Into Cancer Killing Super Bug
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health and Lifestyle Report. Not many people consider a bacterium that makes millions of people sick … a friend. But scientist Roy Curtiss…
2015-05-11 Preventable Carbon Monoxide Still Claims Many Lives
Many areas around the world suffer from frequent loss of electrical power. People often must use other sources of power, such as gasoline or diesel fuel. But these other power…
2015-05-01 Change in Work Schedule Could Cure ‘Social Jet Lag’
From VOA Learning English this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Do you often start your day feeling tired? Do you ever fall asleep at work? Do you sometimes just…
2015-04-27 Caring for an Aging Population
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle Report. Everywhere in the world, people are living longer. Studies show the average age of the human population is rising.…
2015-04-22 One Billion Young People Risk Hearing Loss From Loud Music
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health and Lifestyle report. One billion teenagers and young adults around the world risk losing their hearing by listening to loud music. This…
2015-04-15 How to Raise a Reader
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. For some people, the warmest memories from childhood come from being read a great story. But reading to children…
2015-04-12 Your Body Posture Can Change Your Brain
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. We have known for a long time that our body posture – the way we hold our bodies when…
2015-04-06 Is Secondhand Smoke Child Abuse?
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Doctors have been warning for years that secondhand smoke leads to many types of illness. However, many children around…
2015-04-03 Psychology, Stress Influence Pilots’ Mental Health
Some are asking whether personality tests could have prevented co-pilot Andreas Lubitz from crashing a Germanwings passenger airplane in the French Alps on March 24. But experts say many kinds…
2015-04-01 Study: Women Prefer to Go to Female Health Workers
Researchers recently completed a study of a new method of giving health care to women in Northern Nigeria. They found women and children would use health services more often when…