Scientists Fear Bird Flu Pandemic Coming Scientists studying the spread of bird flu in the United States say they worry about a lack of data in tracking the virus, called Type A H5N1. In recent months, the disease has spread to 129 groups of cows acr...
How Heat Kills From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. As temperatures and humidity rise outside, what happens inside the human body can become a life or death situation. And a difference of just a few degrees can mean living...
Scientists Study Why Bird Flu Kills Some Animals, Not Others Researchers are seeking to learn why bird flu kills some animals quickly but causes only moderate illness in others. In recent years, bird flu is believed to have killed millions of wild an...
Weight-loss Options for Children Are Hard to Get From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. For many parents in the United States, finding help for an overweight child is not easy. That is because the most widely suggested treatm...
Improve Your Mindset, Improve Your Health 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 led him to reconsider his thoughts,...
Study: Past COVID Infection Could Protect Against Colds 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 humans. Th...
Olympic Athletes Turn to Diabetes Technology in Medal Chase 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 to help people...
Poorly-paid Healthcare Workers Leaving Africa 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 country. Many doctors and nu...
US Workers Secretly Take Workations 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 employees work remotely from a vacation pl...
Scientists Test mRNA Vaccines to Protect Against Bird Flu 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 use the s...
Researchers Find Gene behind Disorder Causing Intellectual Disability 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 dis...
Researchers Study Gentler Cancer Treatments Reduced treatment for three kinds of cancer can make life easier for patients without hurting results, doctors reported recently at the worlds largest cancer conference. The findings are part of a long-term...
Despite Demand, No Takers for Care-worker Jobs From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. The hardest part of Culix Wiboneles first job in long-term care was not getting hurt. Wibonele is from Kenya. In 2014, she worked as a cert...
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 list of non-essential thing...
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 has some colorful competition....
