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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BALAKOT, Pakistan  - She cannot avoid thinking about what happened the day the earthquake struck, but 13-year-old Saadia has a mental routine for starting each school day.
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Teenage asthmatics would like to participate more fully in sports and other school activities, but feel hampered by their disease, according to an a University of Missouri allergist.
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Schools are pushing healthier menus, eliminating trans fats, white bread and sugary drinks, while trying to keep students happy.
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Hoping to prevent the loss of children, a few schools have begun monitoring student movements using technology similar to that used to track livestock and retail shipments.
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By Charlie Boss, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 24--Mornings at the school sound of water splashing on soapy hair, onions sizzling on a skillet and computers humming.
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A local school board will consider limiting student access to birth control pills and patches at a middle school's health center
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A Forsyth Central High School student has been diagnosed with tuberculosis by officials from the state Health Department. The 11th-grader has not attended school since Sept.
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The legal case of a girl with special educational needs could prompt a rethink of the use of restraint in schools.
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Eating disorders and the use of body-shaping drugs among female high school athletes can be reduced through a peer-led, sport team-centered program called ATHENA.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. It&#39;s not just OK for students to eat on the run when they arrive at Mount Nittany Middle School in State College each morning.
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A health teacher at Argyle Middle School in Silver Spring spoke to eighth-graders yesterday about sexual orientation. And so began a pilot program in Montgomery County schools that delves deeper into issues of sexual and gender identity than most other school systems in the Washington region, if not...
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An inquiry into youngsters who hurt themselves on purpose says schools need more help to deal with the problem.
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By Jennifer Kapiolani Saxton, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 9--EDWARDSVILLE -- A healthy life is much more than just eating right and exercising, said a Lincoln Middle School student Thursday during the school's health fair.
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Schools grapple with degree to which they're responsible for social, as well as academic, skills.
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Schools are struggling to cope with increasing numbers of pupils with mental health problems, research suggests.
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The city's public school choice process has left many parents and children stressed.