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HEALTH / NEWS Tue May 4, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Young children who watch a lot of TV aren't just missing out on more stimulating activities. They may also be destined for problems at school and unhealthier habits later in life, new research suggests... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Mar 12, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Middle- and high school students may look to their teachers as mentors or even friends. In rare but high-profile cases, experts say, the relationship may go too far, into the sexual realm... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Mar 12, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A high school in Washington, D.C., is set to name a former women's professional football player as its head varsity football coach Friday, a move that a national women's sports advocacy group calls historic... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Mar 12, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A Mississippi high school faces a lawsuit over its decision to cancel its prom rather than allow a lesbian high school student to attend with her girlfriend... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Mar 11, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- An Oklahoma elementary school student has died of bacterial meningitis, officials said Thursday, and two other students are hospitalized with the illness... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Tue Oct 20, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Twelve-year-old Francisca Abreu says she became deeply depressed and, like an alarming number of Latina teens in the U.S., says she wanted to die. One out of every seven Latina teens attempts suicide, according to a 2007 CDC survey of high school students. One expert has spent the last 25 years trying to find out why... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Oct 16, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- For Laura Geraghty, April 1, 2009, started out just as any other day. It was sunny but cool, she remembers... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Sep 24, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- According to some experts, you can wash your hands all you want, and it won't do much to stop the spread of influenza, including the H1N1 variety... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Aug 27, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- High school athletic director Brian Bordainick had 30 seconds to make his pitch -- or lose his dream of building a new stadium for a Katrina-battered school. Four years after the hurricane, Bordainick and football coach Shyrone Carey want to cultivate student pride with their New Orleans "Field of Dreams.".. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Aug 27, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Kristin Schlaud brimmed with pride when she became the first in her blue-collar family to make it to college. But three years after law school, she is completely broke, saddled with almost a quarter-million dollar debt... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Aug 7, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Even 6-year-olds at Hamilton Central School in central New York came to school prepared for swine flu. Jessica Poyer, a first-grade teacher, noticed in the spring that kids had begun bringing their own hand sanitizer, tissues and water bottles... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Jun 12, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- When manicurist Lidia Schaefer returned to her native village in Ethiopia, she was troubled by what she saw. She began setting aside a third of her salary and all of her tips, and later sold her house and car, to raise enough money to build a school for the village... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Wed Jun 9, 2010 @ 9:04am neoform

CNN -- Sleep-deprived high school students who doze off in class aren't just risking the wrath of their teachers. They're also three times more likely to be depressed than their alert classmates who get enough sleep, a new study has found... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Apr 2, 2010 @ 3:02pm neoform

CNN -- Figuring out what's cool. Struggling for acceptance. Dealing with homework. These are familiar perils of middle school. But Haley Moss did it all while dealing with a hidden challenge: autism... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Mar 26, 2010 @ 3:02pm neoform

CNN -- Advocates for improved school nutrition hope the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, a bill cleared for a final vote by the Senate this past Wednesday, might pave the way for lunch programs across the country to replicate the success of a deliciously successful pilot project in Berkeley, California... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Mar 26, 2010 @ 3:02pm neoform

CNN -- Walking into school Wednesday morning was not easy for Constance McMillen. The last time she'd been there was March 11, the day after her Fulton, Mississippi, high school canceled prom rather than allow her to wear a tuxedo and attend with her girlfriend... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Wed Mar 24, 2010 @ 9:02am neoform

CNN -- A federal judge on Tuesday said he would not order a school district to hold a prom that it had canceled after an openly lesbian student asked to attend with her girlfriend... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Mar 5, 2010 @ 9:02am neoform

CNN -- For most of this school year, Sharail Reed has dreaded going to her third-period history class. In a very real sense, the class hasn't had a teacher all year. Instead, a parade of no fewer than 10 substitute teachers has been placed in charge of the class... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Feb 5, 2010 @ 9:02am neoform

CNN -- Max Conradt was a high school quarterback. That is, until the wrenching hit that changed everything. It was a concussion that his doctors believe caused Conradt to sink to the ground, blood pooling dangerously in his brain... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Mon Nov 30, 2009 @ 3:03pm neoform

CNN -- Most college students expect to receive their diplomas on the basis of grades, but at a Pennsylvania school, physical fitness matters too... Read More