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Making the Grade : Information on statistics, program development, and state and national policies related to school-based health centers. State specific summaries included.
PBS TeacherSource: Health and Fitness : Over 300 free resources and lesson plans to help instruct students how to make informed decisions about their health.
Posture Miseducation in Schools : How a combination of incorrect posture advice, overweight backpacks, and harmful school furniture endanger children's posture. Article by Robert Rickover.
School Surveys : Internet surveys for use in primary and secondary schools doing personal social and health education topics.
The New Physical Education : An exploration of the downside of this recent development including fewer competitive activities and more activities that emphasize personal achievement such as rock-climbing, kick-boxing and tai-chi.
Health Opportunities for Today and Tomorrow (HOTT) : Health career research on hundreds of occupations. Resources and links to college and university programs in Michigan.
Kent Health and Education Partnership : Covers issues about making the school a safer place, stopping bullying, ensuring the grounds are clean and giving pupils a say in how their school is run. UK based.
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Researchers Gain Insights Into Aging in Mice (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Stanford University
researchers have linked two previously thought-to-be-separate pathways
tied to aging, at least in mice, leading to more thought that physically
getting older is an orderly and deliberate genetic occurrence. |
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First Americans Arrived on 2 Separate Paths (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Genetic evidence suggests that two
different waves of people migrated from what is now Siberia at about the
same time to become the first settlers in the Americas, a new report
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Doctors Urged to Screen Diabetics for Sleep Apnea (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Here's a wake-up call to the
millions of American men and women with type 2 diabetes: Snoring at night
or nodding off during the day may be symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea,
a potentially life-threatening problem affecting one out of three
diabetics. |
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Preparing for a Chlorine Gas Disaster (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- On a January night in 2005, a
freight train with three tanker cars -- each loaded with 90 tons of
chlorine -- slammed into a parked locomotive in the center of
Graniteville, S.C., a town of 7,000 people about 15 miles from Augusta,
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