https://www.voanews.com/z/607 health https://www.voanews.com/Content/responsive/VOA/en-US/img/logo.png https://www.voanews.com/z/607 en 2026 - VOA 60 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:30:15 -0400 Pangea CMS – VOA The two have been stuck in space for nine months https://www.voanews.com/a/nasa-spacex-launch-crew-to-space-station-to-retrieve-stuck-astronauts/8011575.html https://www.voanews.com/a/nasa-spacex-launch-crew-to-space-station-to-retrieve-stuck-astronauts/8011575.html Sat, 15 Mar 2025 06:04:44 -0400 USAScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)  Day honors the numbers of the mathematical constant of pi https://www.voanews.com/a/pi-day-counts-on-never-ending-numerical-sequence-for-march-14-celebrations-/8011286.html https://www.voanews.com/a/pi-day-counts-on-never-ending-numerical-sequence-for-march-14-celebrations-/8011286.html Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:57:14 -0400 USAScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (VOA News) Researchers say poor eating habits, lack of health care access, obesity and physical inactivity are key drivers of diabetes in Africa https://www.voanews.com/a/africa-faces-diabetes-crisis-study-finds/8010779.html https://www.voanews.com/a/africa-faces-diabetes-crisis-study-finds/8010779.html Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:06:35 -0400 AfricaScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (Zaheer Cassim) Urgent conservation efforts are needed https://www.voanews.com/a/report-us-bird-population-is-declining/8010492.html https://www.voanews.com/a/report-us-bird-population-is-declining/8010492.html Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:55:47 -0400 USAScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (VOA News) Europe's HERA mission will now head to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter https://www.voanews.com/a/asteroid-probe-snaps-rare-images-of-martian-moon/8009850.html https://www.voanews.com/a/asteroid-probe-snaps-rare-images-of-martian-moon/8009850.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:29:34 -0400 Science & HealthEuropewebdesk@voanews.com (Agence France-Presse) David Weldon has been a prominent critic of vaccines and the Centers for Disease Control https://www.voanews.com/a/white-house-withdraws-nomination-for-cdc-director/8009394.html https://www.voanews.com/a/white-house-withdraws-nomination-for-cdc-director/8009394.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:12:21 -0400 USAScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press) It's the oldest known early human partial skull found in western Europe https://www.voanews.com/a/archaeologists-find-million-year-old-face-fossil-of-a-human-ancestor/8009101.html https://www.voanews.com/a/archaeologists-find-million-year-old-face-fossil-of-a-human-ancestor/8009101.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 01:43:35 -0400 Science & HealthEuropewebdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press) The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments https://www.voanews.com/a/nasa-s-newest-space-telescope-blasts-off-to-map-the-entire-sky-and-millions-of-galaxies/8007768.html https://www.voanews.com/a/nasa-s-newest-space-telescope-blasts-off-to-map-the-entire-sky-and-millions-of-galaxies/8007768.html Wed, 12 Mar 2025 03:17:27 -0400 USAScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press) Medecins Sans Frontiere says cholera is on the rise in Haiti. The nongovernmental health organization, also known as Doctors Without Borders, says 150 Haitians were treated for cholera between Feb. 15 and March 6. The Cite Soleil neighborhood reported 19 infections. MSF expressed concern about the trend as Haitians have less access to clean water at a time when gang violence victims are living on the streets in unsanitary conditions.   Click here for the full story in Creole. https://www.voanews.com/a/voa-creole-msf-reports-150-new-cholera-cases-in-haiti-/8007305.html https://www.voanews.com/a/voa-creole-msf-reports-150-new-cholera-cases-in-haiti-/8007305.html Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:20:28 -0400 AmericasScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (Wilner Bossou) A school-age child died of measles in Texas last month, and New Mexico reported its first measles-related death in an adult last week https://www.voanews.com/a/measles-cases-rising-in-southwestern-us-as-more-states-report-infections/8007201.html https://www.voanews.com/a/measles-cases-rising-in-southwestern-us-as-more-states-report-infections/8007201.html Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:46:46 -0400 USAScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press) Expert says improved numbers due to better climatic factors and humidity https://www.voanews.com/a/monarch-butterflies-wintering-in-mexico-rebound-this-year/8003400.html https://www.voanews.com/a/monarch-butterflies-wintering-in-mexico-rebound-this-year/8003400.html Sat, 08 Mar 2025 02:15:30 -0500 Science & HealthAmericaswebdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press) Protesters say say firings, budget and grant cuts in health, climate, science and other research government agencies endanger not just the future but the present https://www.voanews.com/a/us-researchers-and-doctors-rally-for-science-against-trump-cuts/8003421.html https://www.voanews.com/a/us-researchers-and-doctors-rally-for-science-against-trump-cuts/8003421.html Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:38:49 -0500 USAScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press) Waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan's White Nile State https://www.voanews.com/a/cholera-killed-nearly-100-in-sudan-over-2-weeks-aid-group-says-/8003385.html https://www.voanews.com/a/cholera-killed-nearly-100-in-sudan-over-2-weeks-aid-group-says-/8003385.html Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:41:11 -0500 AfricaScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press) Most of the cases of measles are in people younger than 18 and people who are unvaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status https://www.voanews.com/a/more-than-200-measles-cases-reported-in-texas-new-mexico/8003360.html https://www.voanews.com/a/more-than-200-measles-cases-reported-in-texas-new-mexico/8003360.html Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:19:53 -0500 USAScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press) Starship reached nearly 150 kilometers in altitude before trouble struck https://www.voanews.com/a/spacex-s-latest-starship-test-flight-again-ends-in-explosion/8002040.html https://www.voanews.com/a/spacex-s-latest-starship-test-flight-again-ends-in-explosion/8002040.html Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:19:45 -0500 Science & HealthUSAwebdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press) It’s the second measles-related death in the US in more than a decade https://www.voanews.com/a/unvaccinated-new-mexico-adult-tests-positive-for-measles-after-death-/8002037.html https://www.voanews.com/a/unvaccinated-new-mexico-adult-tests-positive-for-measles-after-death-/8002037.html Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:10:35 -0500 USAScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (Reuters) Reversal comes after Trump administration ended about 90% of contracts funded by USAID, State Department https://www.voanews.com/a/some-us-cuts-to-global-health-programs-reversed-groups-say-/8002015.html https://www.voanews.com/a/some-us-cuts-to-global-health-programs-reversed-groups-say-/8002015.html Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:54:28 -0500 USAScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (VOA News) The rocket took off smoothly from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana https://www.voanews.com/a/ariane-6-rocket-roars-skyward-carrying-french-military-satellite/8001656.html https://www.voanews.com/a/ariane-6-rocket-roars-skyward-carrying-french-military-satellite/8001656.html Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:56:30 -0500 EuropeScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press) The Public Health Agency of Canada said it has recorded 227 measles cases as of March 6, more than all of last year https://www.voanews.com/a/canada-reports-increase-in-measles-cases-urges-vaccination/8001574.html https://www.voanews.com/a/canada-reports-increase-in-measles-cases-urges-vaccination/8001574.html Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:19:38 -0500 AmericasScience & Healthwebdesk@voanews.com (Reuters) Collisions with boats are the cause of at least 20% of manatee deaths in Florida every year. But as Valdya Baraputri reports, that’s not the only threat faced by these gentle giants of the sea. Camera: Laurentius Wahyudi and Nabila Ganinda https://www.voanews.com/a/florida-s-gentle-giants-manatees-fight-for-survival/8000979.html https://www.voanews.com/a/florida-s-gentle-giants-manatees-fight-for-survival/8000979.html Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:41:10 -0500 USAScience & HealthClimate Changewebdesk@voanews.com (Valdya Baraputri)