WHO Clarifies What It Means for Disease to Spread Through the Air International health experts have agreed on a new definition of what it means for a disease to spread through the air. 国际卫生专家就疾病通过空气传播的含义达成了新的...
Aprils Gardening To-do List 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 and growing conditions change greatly in...
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) accelerated approval program aims to get new drugs to patients...
Serbian Center Cares for Old, Forgotten Animals 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 2015. It is found on a small piece of...
Peru Claims Worlds Oldest Person Ever at Age 124 秘鲁宣称全球最长寿者现年124岁 Peru's Andes Mountains might be home to the oldest person ever to have lived at the age of 124. 秘鲁的安第斯山脉可能是有史以来最年长者的家园...
US Officials Warn of Increase in Bacterial Illnesses That Could Be Deadly 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...
Study: Humans Give More Viruses to Animals Than They Give Us 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 experts...
意大利医生开创性地将腿部神经移植到手部 A man in Italy might regain the use of his hand after having a new kind of medical operation. 意大利的一名男子在接受了一种新的医疗手术后可能会恢复手的功能。 Doct...
人工智能可以帮助老人对抗孤单 Joyce Loaiza lives alone in a community for older people in the American state of Florida. 乔伊斯洛艾萨独自住在美国佛罗里达州的一个老年人社区。 When she is home, the retired office...
塑化剂在食品中广泛存在 New research from the American non-profit organization Consumer Reports finds that plastics have a widespread presence in food. 美国非营利组织消费者报告的最新研究发现，塑料在食品中广泛存在...
残疾的治疗猫 Every day Juanita Mengel, a 67-year-old woman from the state of Ohio, wakes up and puts on her manufactured leg. 来自俄亥俄州的67岁妇女胡安妮塔门格尔每天醒来后都会戴上她的假腿。 The device is called a...
研究称美国儿童肥胖率正在上升 A new study adds to evidence that obesity is becoming more common in young children in America. 一项新的研究进一步证明，肥胖在美国幼儿中变得越来越普遍。 The study appeared in the...
AI Chatbots to Help with Mental Health Struggles 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. When users ta...
New Way to Fight Brain Cancer Shows Promise 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' own immune cells and turn...
Marriages in South Korea Rise Slightly after Years of Decrease 韩国结婚率去年小幅增长 The number of marriages in South Korea rose in 2023 for the first time in more than ten years. 2023年韩国结婚人数出现十多年来的首次增长。...
