School Health News

Children from low-income families can receive cavity protection and quality dental care from school-based dental sealant programs, according to a recent CDC Vital Signs report and telebriefing.

Multiple stakeholders recently addressed the necessity for pediatricians to educate families and children about asthma treatments and cooperate with school nurses to meet school-based asthma care needs in the School-based Asthma Management Program, according to a workforce report.

Cochlear synaptopathy, or hidden hearing loss, was associated with college students’ difficulty in comprehending speech in challenging auditory environments, according to recent study findings.

Pyrethroid head lice treatments have decreased in efficacy during the past 30 years, likely because of indiscriminate and widespread use, according to recent study findings.

Children and adolescents in nearly a dozen countries around the world view their school-based sex and relationship education as negative, out of touch, heterosexist and taught by poorly trained, often embarrassed teachers, which in turn reduces opportunities to improve their sexual health, according to data published in BMJ Open.

Using standing-based desks, as opposed to traditional sit-down desks, in classrooms for 2 consecutive years resulted in a significant decrease in BMI percentile, according to data published in the American Journal of Public Health.

A higher BMI in girls and a lower BMI in boys were associated with hospital admission rates for asthma during early adulthood, according to data presented recently at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in London.

The FDA has issued a final rule banning the marketing of OTC, consumer antiseptic soaps containing certain active ingredients, after manufacturers failed to demonstrate that they are both safe for long-term daily use or more effective than plain soap and water at preventing illness and infection.

The AAP’s Council on Early Childhood and Council on School Health recently released a policy statement that supported pediatricians’ role in optimizing school readiness in children by identifying physical, emotional and social factors that can adversely affect performance in school.

The AAP’s committees on practice and ambulatory medicine, infectious diseases and state government affairs recently released a policy statement that supported current laws and regulations regarding medical exemptions for unvaccinated children, and they urged that nonmedical exemptions be strongly advised against in public settings.