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The American School Health Association is pleased to announce that School Kids Healthcare is providing 20 scholarships for school nurses to attend the 82nd Annual ASHA School Health Conference in Tampa, Florida, November 12 – 15, 2008.
 
This generous offer - available to school nurses practicing at the school or district level - includes complimentary registration, […]

The February 15, 2008 issue of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s MMWR reports on unintentional strangulation deaths from the “Choking Game” among youth aged 6 – 19.  The report tracks reported incidents from 1995 – 2007.  What I found alarming about this report was the age of those who died – most were […]

The PBS show Frontline recently aired a show on the Medicated Child (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/).  The focus was on children medicated for AD/HD and bipolar disorder.  In interviews with parents and physicians, the show looked at the increasing tendency to medicate even young children for behavior-related disorders. 
 
A question often arises about whether there really are so […]

A commentary by Linda Grant, M.D.
Media reports on MRSA or Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus have been making headlines in the past few months, capturing school administrators and parent’s attention and elevating concerns… However, schools may be more well-prepared than they realize to address his issue. 
 
Schools have experience with minimizing risk of illnesses. Universal precautions […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently proposed new rules that would require that all seats on school buses be four inches higher and that all small school buses (10,000 pounds GVWR or less) have 3-point safety belts.  They are also proposing to establish standards for 2 or 3-point safety belts on larger school buses. 
 
For […]