Tag: youth
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Southern Kentucky physician expands his in-school clinics; already in Russell County, will be in Adair County next year
Dr. Eric Loy (Columbia Magazine photo) An entrepreneurial physician in Southern Kentucky has developed a way to deliver school health services that could have a broader impact on communities. Cumberland...
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Burgin, in heart of Kentucky, is state’s 40th school district to go tobacco-free; ban, won by students, applies to vapor products
Burgin Independent Schools, in the heart of Kentucky, will be the latest 100 percent tobacco-free schools in the state, and the first in Mercer County, which has a strong tobacco...
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Warren County school board bans tobacco use on campuses and by students and employees during extracurricular school activities
The Warren County Board of Education voted 4-1 on March 16 to ban the use of tobacco “by students, employees or those on school grounds or during extracurricular school activities”...
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Kenton County Schools ban use of tobacco
The Kenton County Board of Education voted unanimously March 2 to approve a smoke-free policy immediately prohibiting the use of tobacco on school property, in board-owned vehicles and on school-related...
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#ThanksMichelleObama: Students use social media to voice their unhappiness with revamped school lunches
School kids around the country are tweeting pictures of their unappetizing school lunches and blaming the most prominent advocate for healthier school meals for their “bowls of mush and mystery...
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As Ky.’s teen-birth rank rises, mother objects to Casey Co. child-development class’s baby shower for five pregnant students
Kentucky’s ranking for births to females aged 15 to 19 is going up, and five students at Casey County High School are pregnant. A joint baby shower for them during...
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Pediatricians say middle and high schools shouldn’t start class before 8:30 a.m., as a way to help sleep-deprived teenagers
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently recommended that middle and high schools not start of classes until 8:30 a.m. at the earliest. An estimated 40 percent of high schools in the U.S. start classes...
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Smoking among Kentucky youth dropped by one-fourth from 2011 to 2013, biennial CDC survey determines
Photo from TobaccoPreventionK12 By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Fewer Kentucky high-school students are smoking cigarettes. The state dropped to sixth place from first in high-school smoking in the 2013...
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Health advocates recommend teaching children benefits of healthy food, even raw, to adapt to school-meal guidelines
Health advocates say that teaching people, especially children, about nutrition and the value of new federal guidelines for school meals can help improve Kentucky’s health, Jacqueline Pitts reports for “Pure...
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Russell Co. school board plans to make all campuses tobacco-free, renews free-lunch-for-all plan after breaking even
School districts in Kentucky often deal with health issues. The Russell County Board of Education dealt with two important ones, tobacco use and school lunch, in its meeting last week....