An interdisciplinary school program designed to promote healthy behaviors reduced the percentage of 7th graders who were overweight or obese and helped more than 20,000 middle school students cut back on TV viewing, increase ...
Aug 26, 2015
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Vaping by U.S. teenagers fell dramatically this year, especially among middle schoolers, according to a federal report released Wednesday.
Sep 9, 2020
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A new paper in Sleep indicates that different teaching strategies schools imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in dramatic differences in when and how much students slept. Notably students receiving online instruction ...
Aug 17, 2021
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High schools in the San Francisco Bay Area are being contaminated by plastics and toxic litter from e-cigarettes, cannabis products and combustible tobacco products such as cigarettes and cigarillos, a new study by researchers ...
Oct 10, 2019
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Most students in elementary, middle and high schools are exposed to food commercialism (including exclusive beverage contracts and the associated incentives, profits and advertising) at school, although there has been a decrease ...
Jan 13, 2014
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Catalina Berenblum Tobi had her first colonoscopy when she was just 10 years old. For more than a year she had been suffering from severe abdominal pain and diarrhea for which there was no apparent cause. While terrified ...
Jan 24, 2024
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With all the time that young people spend in front of screens these days – from TVs to laptops, cellphones and iPads – children are bound to see a lot of ads and commercials.
Feb 22, 2019
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Getting less than five hours of sleep a night leads to an increased likelihood of teens carrying a handgun—and even taking a gun to school, according to a new study published in Sleep Health by researchers from FIU and ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Cigarette smoking rates have stopped falling among U.S. kids, and health officials believe youth vaping is responsible.
Feb 11, 2019
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(HealthDay)—The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) two-question alcohol screen is valid for use within pediatric emergency departments (PEDs), according to a study published online Nov. 29 in Pediatrics.
Nov 30, 2016
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