Can Cancer Blood Tests Help Save Lives? Joyce Ares was feeling fine when she agreed to get a blood test for research. So, she was surprised when the test came back with signs of cancer. After a repeat blood test and two more tests for cancer, she was...
The United States military deployed about 24,000 troops to help state and local governments across the country fight COVID-19. That mission has ended, at least for now. The Department of Defense is making preparations for the next possible infectious...
Teachers Get Mental Health Training, Help Students From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. Since the pandemic started, experts have warned of a mental health crisis facing American children. That is now happening in the form o...
Hugelkultur: A Different Way of Container Gardening People without a lot of outdoor space sometimes grow a garden in containers such as raised beds. They refill the containers each year with several bags of nutrient-rich soil and compost that they pu...
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, United States health officials are discussing how to best protect Americans from the ever-changing coronavirus. On Wednesday, a group of vaccine advisers to the Food and Drug Administration spent hours...
Ways to Grow a Child's Love of Gardening From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. If you want your children to become ready, willing, and able gardeners, take steps early. It is not difficult, but you might need to change your...
Researchers around the world are trying to find out how much and where COVID-19 is spreading in the wild. For researcher Todd Kautz and his team that means giving COVID tests to animals like bears, moose, deer and wolves. They are doing their researc...
Small space? Small Container Growing! Gardeners, or people who grow plants and crops, typically use a part of land on their property. But for many people having a bit of land is just a dream. Some people have limited ability to move around. Others mi...
Scientists are investigating a possible increase in diabetes cases since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Diabetes is a condition in which the body cannot control sugars in the blood. The scientists want to find out if COVID-19 has a connec...
Fast-spreading Omicron Sub-variant Raises Concerns An Omicron sub-variant of the COVID-19 virus is spreading fast in many parts of the world and raising concerns for experts. This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that BA....
A new study has found that people living in South and Central Asia experience some of the highest levels of air pollution in the world. 一项新的研究发现，生活在南亚和中亚的人们经受了全球最高水平的空气污染。 The air...
Many gardeners do not begin to grow their plants from seeds. Instead, they buy young plants, also called seedling or starts. These are plants that are grown in a nursery: a place where plants are grown and sold. Many gardeners buy seedlings in contai...
Most children who get COVID-19 show few to no usual signs of sickness. Eight-year-old Brooklynn Chiles of Washington, D.C. is one such child. The young girl has tested positive for the virus three times. She is fully vaccinated against the coronaviru...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult on many groups of people. But perhaps it has been especially hard for many older people. Many months of being alone, or isolated, has taken its toll on many senior citizens. However, in some places, that isola...
February marks the halfway point of winter in the northern part of the world. 2月是北半球冬季的中期。 With spring arriving soon, many people are dreaming of working in their gardens on warm, sunny days. 春天马上就要到了，许多人都...
