School Health News

Public health violations were reported in more than 10% of public pool inspections in the United States in 2008, according to findings published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Pediatric antibiotic use, as well as apparent misuse, was more prevalent in Mexico compared with Texas along the countries’ shared border, data from a recent study indicated.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Moderate-to-severe asthma was almost twice as prevalent among children whose caregivers reported moderate-to-high exposure levels to stress and community violence, data presented at the 2010 Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting indicated.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The likelihood that a child was dropped from Medicaid significantly correlated with the reading level at which health insurance documents were written, study findings suggested, with coverage loss increasing with each increasing grade-level used.

Rates of invasive pneumococcal disease caused by 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine serotypes may have been eliminated in Navajo Indian populations, according to recently published findings.

A mumps outbreak that began last summer at a summer camp in New York has now affected more than 1,520 people in New York and New Jersey, and may be on the rise, according to a CDC report issued today.

More than 60% of health care workers surveyed reported that their hospital was prepared for an influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, according to results of a recent study.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it has awarded more than $119 million to U.S. states and territories to support public health efforts to reduce obesity, increase physical activity, improve nutrition and decrease smoking.

Differences in rates of perinatal HIV infection between races/ethnicities in the United States have persisted over the past several years, with 69% of cases per year occurring in black patients, 16% in Hispanic patients and 11% in white patients, according to a recent study.

Children from high-income families who had private insurance were most likely to frequent EDs for diagnoses that could be treated by a primary care physician; however, out-of-pocket ED expenditures remained the highest for uninsured children.