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Leraning Disabilties | Learning Disability : The Nadeau Educational Center is a testing and treatment clinic for children and adults with neurological disorders and learning disabilities.
Drama Lesson Plans : Original and imaginative healthy living schemes of work complete with all music, film and test resources. Ofsted-ready lesson plans available to download instantly.
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.
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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House Democrats Approve Health-Care Reform Bill (HealthDay)
HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) -- After a year of fierce
partisan debate, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives late
Sunday night passed the landmark $940 billion health-care reform bill,
which would extend health insurance coverage to 32 million uninsured
Americans, prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to people
with preexisting medical conditions and cut the federal deficit by an
estimated $138 billion over the next decade. |
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Showdown Over Health-Care Reform Bill Nears (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) -- Health experts say that the
furiously debated $940 billion health-care reform bill moving toward a
vote for passage in Congress this weekend really boils down to one simple
tenet: More Americans should have access to health insurance. |
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Gene-Targeted Cancer Fix Could Be a Breakthrough (HealthDay)
HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) -- For the first time in
humans, scientists have successfully used a gene-manipulation therapy to
enter tumor cells and block the production of toxic proteins that are
causing cancer, researchers report. |
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US Congress passes historic health care bill (AFP)
AFP - The US Congress passed an historic health care overhaul Sunday, handing President Barack Obama a landmark win and taking the United States closer than ever to guaranteed coverage for all Americans. |
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Lawmakers reject tax to pay for health reform (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. lawmakers on Sunday criticized a plan to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for a $1 trillion healthcare overhaul and warned Congress was unlikely to meet President Barack Obama's goal of passing the measure by August. |
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With Rare Disorders, Misdiagnosis and Desperation Prevail (HealthDay)
HealthDay - SATURDAY, March 20 (HealthDay News) -- People diagnosed with
cancer have a difficult and scary battle ahead of them, but there's
comfort to be found in the multitude of patient groups, medical
associations, research facilities and hospitals dedicated to improving
treatment of their disease. |
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Nepalese doc is God of Sight to poor (AP)
AP - Raj Kaliya Dhanuk sits on a wooden bench, barefoot, with a tattered sari covering thin arms as rough as bark. Thick clear tears bleed from her eyes, milky saucers that stare at nothing. |
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