In the Trenches: In a Competitive Middle School, Triage for Aches and Anxieties
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As schools expand to include students with physiological and psychological challenges, the school nurse has become more than just someone to detect a fever from a fake.
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Thinking small may be the next big thing at American high schools. From Oregon to New York, school districts are scaling down to combat problems that are very big indeed: high dropout rates, sinking test scores and low attendance.
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Drop by a high school cafeteria at lunchtime some day and listen to the girls' conversations. One may be commiserating with another over how much schoolwork they have. A couple of others might be fretting over how tired they are from lacrosse practice and that they're never going to get their col...
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Thereâs a growing sense of urgency among educators that  every student should be on a college track.
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By Stephen T. Watson, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Jun. 5--At Maple West Elementary School, a class of second-graders pulled together a polished PowerPoint presentation on all sorts of creepy-crawly bugs.
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NEW YORK  - Adolescents who are victims of bullying are likely to take more medications than their peers, a Danish study shows.
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Needle-phobic children and their stressed-out parents may catch a break with a Franklin firm&#39;s device that makes it faster and easier to apply local pain relief.
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NEW YORK  - Research in psychiatrically ill children and adolescents suggests that those with depression, anxiety and other so-called "internalizing" disorders are more likely to have allergies.
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As an eighth-grader at Kroc Middle School in San Diego, Sasha Knox was trouble. She would throw punches at kids and hurl vitriol at teachers. Security guards once had to drag her out of history class while the teacher stood by, sobbing. Her great-grandfather was an alcoholic. Her grandmother, on drugs, slept in the streets. Her dad had left home, and her mother, a bipolar who smoked pot three times daily, was stumbling on and off welfare.
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Research in psychiatrically ill  children and adolescents suggests that those with depression,  anxiety and other so-called "internalizing" disorders are more  likely to have allergies.
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Health care experts are convinced that games can help people get and stay well, but they don't agree on what's the best approach. By Noah Shachtman.
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A disturbed 14-year-old wounds four before killing himself in Clevelandâjust another spasm of violence in another bloody year for Americaâs schools. How to spot trouble before it opens fireâand the ongoing debate over blame for a cycle that just wonât stop.
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Madeline Mann once weighed less than a can of soda as the tiniest surviving newborn known to medicine. Next week, she enters her suburban high school as something even more extraordinary -- an
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By Julie Deardorff  Increasing numbers of us are Googling our own weird headaches, rashes and unexplained symptoms before heading to the doctor.  And although physicians are secretly Googling difficult medical situations, many aren't thrilled that we're doing the same thing.
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FRIDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- With the start of the school year, parents need to take steps to protect their children from allergy and asthma triggers they may encounter at school.
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Self-hypnosis can relieve distress in children undergoing an uncomfortable medical procedure known as a voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG), according to new research.
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THURSDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) -- School nurses are crucial to promoting heart health among children and youth, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA).