| | | | | | Stocks wavered in afternoon trading on Wall Street Monday for a shaky start to May following a brutal April in which widespread technology sell-offs dragged down major benchmarks. The S&P 500 fell 0.2%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.3% and the Nasdaq rose 0.3%. Communications and technology companies made solid gains and helped counter losses elsewhere in the market. Investors are expecting an extra-large interest rate increase this week from the Federal Reserve as it tries to tame inflation, which is at its highest level in four decades. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 2.99%. | | | | | | MONDAY, May 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adults who suffer from asthma often need to take corticosteroids to open up their airways, but the medications may have an unintended side effect: New research shows the treatment, particularly when taken in pill form, raised the risk of patients becoming obese. | | | | | | COVID-19 rules for travelers will vary depending on the destination. But testing positive for the virus could result in an unexpected change in plans, such as being required to stay isolated in a hoteI. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that travelers going overseas should make contingency plans since they might have to stay longer than planned if they test positive. Travel companies suggest getting insurance that covers the cost of recovery or isolation. Travelers who end up needing medical treatment are advised to check with their embassy for suggested health care providers. | | | | | | | <script type="text/javascript" src="https://newsource-embed-prd.ns.cnn.com/videos/embed-video-player.min.js" data-newsource-publisher="853" data-player-data="8384f551261806a6a029ea99f878eb3" data-max-width="auto" data-autoplay="1" data-player-type="1010" data-embed-type="3020"></script>If you’re wondering how your child might fare on a vegetarian diet, a new study offers some factors to consider. Children eating a vegetarian diet and children who ate meat were similar in terms of growth, height and nutritional measures, but vegetarian children had higher odds of being underweight, according to a... | | | | | | MONDAY, May 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Bella Kofner, a 24-year-old graduate student in special education at the College of Staten Island in New York, was 10 when her parents first told her she had autism. Developmental psychologist Steven Kapp, now 35, was 13 when he was told the same. | | | | | | MONDAY, May 2, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- While a worker cleaned out the septic system at John Cathey's house in Murray, Kentucky, John was down in the crawl space checking the pipes. When it came time to exit, he pushed his legs to scoot out. His left leg wouldn't move. | | | | | | MONDAY, May 2, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Federal guidelines geared toward curbing the overprescription of opioids have modestly reduced their use after medical procedures to implant pacemakers and other heart devices, new research shows. | | | | | | A recent RAND Corporation survey found that nearly 75% of school district leaders around the country felt political polarization interfered with their ability to teach their students. However, that's not the case at Grand Valley High School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, especially not in Kim Barben's Advanced Placement United States Government class. And with support from the National Constitution Center and its Interactive Constitution initiative, Barben and hundreds of teachers across the country get to show thousands of students that not everything is political. They also get practice in how to disagree without being disagreeable. | | | | | | |
