| | | | | | A series of factors helped pave the way for Trevor Reed's release from a Russian prison this week as part of a prisoner exchange. They include escalating concerns over Reed's health, a private Oval Office meeting between his parents and President Joe Biden and a secretive Moscow trip by a former diplomat on the cusp of Russia's war with Ukraine. U.S. officials stressed that the negotiations for Reed's release were narrow in scope, focused squarely on the prisoners and not on Russia's war. But while the timing of the deal was startling, it's also clear that the groundwork for it had been laid before the conflict had begun. | | | | | | FRIDAY, April 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- There were significant reductions in the prevalence of self-reported cigarette smoking among U.S. adults with major depressive episode (MDE), substance use disorder (SUD), or both between 2006 and 2019, according to a study published in the April 26 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. | | | | | | FRIDAY, April 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A high proportion of infants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) are not meeting current vitamin D recommendations, according to a study published online March 11 in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. | | | | | | FRIDAY, April 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The effects of dapagliflozin are similar for hospitalized patients with COVID-19 with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <60 and ≥60 mL/min per 1.73 m2, according to a study published online April 28 in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. | | | | | | FRIDAY, April 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Rates of high blood pressure among pregnant women in the United States are on the rise and now occur in at least one in seven hospital deliveries, a new government report warns. | | | | | | FRIDAY, April 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Racial differences persist across the continuum of care among patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty (TJA), according to a study published in the April 15 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. | | | | | | The Food and Drug Administration has set tentative dates in June to publicly review COVID-19 vaccines for the youngest American children. The FDA said Friday it plans to convene its outside panel of vaccine experts on June 8, 21 and 22 to review applications from Moderna and Pfizer for vaccines in tots and babies. The dates are tentative and regulators said they will provide more details later. The meeting announcements follow months of frustration from families impatient for a chance to vaccinate their young children, along with complaints from politicians bemoaning the slow pace of the process. | | | | | | Stocks fell in morning trading on Wall Street Friday, putting major indexes back into the red for the week after several sharp moves both up and down over the past few days. The S&P 500 fell 1.2%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.8% and the Nasdaq fell 1.2%. The market is also heading for steep losses in April as traders fret about the tough medicine the Federal Reserve is planning to fight inflation in the form of higher interest rates, which will increase borrowing costs across the board. Amazon slumped after reporting a rare quarterly loss. Bond yields rose. | | | | | | |
