A before-school physical activity initiative started by a group of moms is an effective path to helping kids lose weight, according to a study by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital for Children and Harvard Medical ...
Mar 19, 2018
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Parents with a knack for citizen science are helping their children walk or bike to school by using an app that lets them document the best routes.
Mar 13, 2019
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Without addressing these gaps, collaboration between schools (operating under FERPA) and health departments (operating under HIPAA) can compromise student privacy.
Feb 12, 2020
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Health education frequently fails to teach the menstrual cycle in its full entirety, focusing mostly on the bleeding part of the story and glossing over the ovulation chapter. In other words, many girls* often only get half ...
May 26, 2021
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Women represent the fastest-growing population in U.S. institutional corrections facilities. In the past four decades, the number of women incarcerated has increased by more than 475%, rising from 26,326 in 1980 to 152,854 ...
Jun 26, 2023
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With summer around the corner, a project shows how implementing an evidence-based mindfulness program in a summer camp setting decreases emotional distress in school age children and empowers campers and counselors alike—enhancing ...
Apr 13, 2021
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An interactive text-message support program can help teenagers quit vaping, a groundbreaking new clinical trial finds.
Aug 8, 2024
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To expedite long lunch lines and enable cleaner accounting, about 80 percent of schools use debit cards or accounts that parents can add money to for cafeteria lunch transactions, write David Just and Brian Wansink, professors ...
Oct 8, 2013
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(HealthDay)—The prevalence of smoking and the implementation of combined interventions to reduce smoking vary between states, according to a report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Jan 29, 2013
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Philadelphia ranks No. 1 among U.S. cities for new sexually transmitted infections—STIs—according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Jun 19, 2024
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