School Health News

After going totally virtual last year, the 34th Annual Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will be back, both online and in-person, on Nov. 21 and 22.

An HPV vaccination intervention that was implemented in schools modestly improved psychosocial vaccine-related outcomes like decision-making in adolescents, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Universal school-based screening helped identify depression among high school students in Pennsylvania, according to a randomized clinical trial, which found that participating students were twice as likely to begin treatment.

The FDA on Friday authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years.

College age students reported issues with distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, including trouble concentrating, limited access to technology, food insecurity, and mental health issues, according to researchers.

More than 6,500 children and adolescents experience a golf cart-related injury each year, according to data presented at the virtual AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

U.S. counties without school mask requirements saw pediatric COVID-19 cases increase nearly twice as fast in the 2 weeks after schools reopened than counties with mask mandates, according to an MMWR report published Friday.

The rate of BMI increase among children almost doubled during the pandemic, according to researchers, who found that younger kids experienced larger increases than teens and preteens.

Remote school may do more harm to the mental health of older and Black and Hispanic kids and those from lower-income families, according to a nationally representative, cross-sectional study in JAMA Network Open.

Half of the elementary school students in an unvaccinated teacher’s classroom developed COVID-19 after the teacher — infected and symptomatic — worked for 2 days and read to the students while not wearing a mask, according to researchers.