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College is a time of transition, but for those managing chronic medical conditions, it may also be the first time they will be wholly responsible for their own health: Setting appointments, securing supplies and pharmaceuticals, and monitoring symptoms. For those heading to schools far from home, it can be especially tricky navigating the complex world […]
After a year of full or partial distance learning, many students will be headed back into a physical classroom this fall. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases physician at Mayo Clinic Children’s Center, offers some tips for a healthy school year. “Going into the school year, it’s probably going […]
As COVID-19 cases surge around the country, a majority of Americans say they support mask mandates for students and teachers in K-12 schools, according to a new poll, but their views are sharply divided along political lines. About 6 in 10 Americans say students and teachers should be required to wear face masks while in […]
Whether eating out or buying food from the grocery store, Americans of all ages are, for the most part, eating poorly everywhere—except at school. The information comes from a new dietary trends study, which also reveals persistent or worsening disparities in meal quality from restaurants, grocery stores, and other sources—but not school—by race, ethnicity, and […]
The Czech government on Tuesday approved the first easing of its tight lockdown in one of the European Union’s hardest-hit countries, allowing at least some children to return to school. “It’s not a full relaxation,” Health Minister Jan Blatny said. “The situation hasn’t been ideal yet.” Starting Monday, people in the Czech Republic will be […]
Three feet of social distancing is enough for schools to reopen: Dr. Siegel Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on possible new social distancing guidelines and the best way to convince more Republicans to get the coronavirus vaccine. The nation’s leading infectious disease expert said he expects the Centers for Disease Control […]
A new global analysis led by Imperial College London, and published in journal The Lancet, has assessed the height and weight of school-aged children and adolescents across the world. The study, which used data from 65 million children aged five to 19 years old in 193 countries, revealed that school-aged children’s’ height and weight, which […]
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded Monday, Oct. 5, to three scientists for groundbreaking research that led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, an insidious and deadly blood-borne virus. One of those scientists – virologist Charles M. Rice, PhD – conducted his seminal work while on the faculty of […]
Girl, 12, turned ‘into a baby again’ and lost her ability to walk and talk after being struck down with a brain-swelling virus she caught ‘while paddle boarding on a school trip’ Ffion Westwater, from Merthyr Tydfil, went on a school trip in July 2018 She started to feel unwell and two days later was […]
Some mornings, the news is so depressing, we can’t believe what we’re reading. When we heard that a third-grade girl named Marian Scott was barred from having her school photo taken because she had red hair extensions, it was one of those SMH moments. It may be 2019, but girls are still shamed at school […]