Health & Lifestyle

– Manuscript – Researchers say a new method for heart transplants could increase the number of available organs and save more lives. Currently, most transplanted hearts come from donors who have been declared brain dead. This means the person no longer has signs of brain function after suffering a serious injury. In a brain death, machines can keep the body breathing and … [Read more...] about Study: New Heart Transplant Method Could Save More Patients

– Manuscript – In her latest gardening story, Jessica Damiano tells of going to a gardening store in search of only one plant. The store did not have the plant that the Associated Press writer wanted. But it had many containers of pretty flowers. Instead of leaving with nothing, Damiano came home with many flowers. She called the flowers “eye candy.” Damiano also … [Read more...] about How to Plant Flowers in a Container

– Manuscript – The area in front of Janet and Jeffrey Crouch’s house in Columbia, Maryland, does not look usual for their neighborhood. That is because the Crouches do not have a grass lawn. Instead, they have some small trees and many native plants. Lawns are areas around a house or in a park that are covered with short grass. In recent years, support for replacing … [Read more...] about Some Americans Want Fewer Grass Lawns

– Manuscript – Sweden is getting close to becoming the first “smoke-free” country in the European Union (EU). The country of 10.5 million people has had the lowest percentage of smokers in the EU for many years. A country is “smoke-free” if less than five percent of the population smokes daily. Only 6.4 percent of Swedes over the age of 15 were daily smokers in 2019. … [Read more...] about Sweden Close to Becoming ‘Smoke Free’ Country

– Manuscript – Officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) are negotiating new rules for dealing with pandemics. The U.N. health agency's 194 member countries have set a target date of May 2024 for a legal agreement. A new agreement is a top goal for WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He called it a "generational commitment that we will not go back to the old … [Read more...] about How WHO Could Deal with Future Pandemics