Nurse Kat's Health Room Helper

March 2010

3-31-10:

  • A school nurse speaks up and writes in about meningococcal disease and immunization. You go girl!!
  • An article about the local/national no-nit debate:

3-30-10:

  • Unfortunately this will happen increasingly frequently if more and more families do not vaccinate:
  • Some positive thoughts on school nurses:
3-25-10: Children with food allergies should carry two Epi-pens according to a new study:

http://www.medpagetoday.com/AllergyImmunology/Allergy/19150?utm_content=GroupC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=mSpoke

3-23-10: Portion Sizes in paintings of the 'Last Supper' have gotten bigger over time.

http://www.livescience.com/culture/large-last-supper-100323.html

3-18-10: A blog from a school teacher in the mid west who is eating her school's lunch everyday for a year and writing about it:

http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com/

3-15-10: New research related to health problems and achievement gaps:

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/03/09/25health.h29.html?tkn=LSOFOiv%2FrpwjrNTF6ndkARuORqHavSNC%2B6se&cmp=clp-sb-ascd

3-11-10: A new pill for resistant lice is being tested.(Parents want a magic pill for everything, lets see how long this one works for)

http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100310/pill-kills-hard-to-treat-head-lice

3-10-10: Stronger regulations and consequences for food production safety are definitely needed. To ship a product to consumers that you know is contaminated is truly reprehensible.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030903467.html

3-9-10: New research indicates that only using guilt and shame to deter alcohol use may actually make to problem worse. This finding is definitely something to consider when planning lessons for teenagers and young adults.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96061.html

3-8-10: Even preschoolers are showing signs of future heart disease. Further showing that no amount of medical revolutions can keep us from eating ourselves and feeding our children to death.

http://www.healthnews.com/family-health/child-health/obese-children-as-young-as-three-show-signs-of-future-heart-disease-4122.html

3-4-10:

  • The FDA is requesting that 17 manufacturers change the labeling on their products because of misleading information. Many of these products are popular among families.

  • Another worry for Diabetics and their parents, this time with their insulin pumps.

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/03/03/fda-finds-problems-with-insulin-pumps-across-manufacturers/

3-3-10: Perhaps this will finally make lawmakers wise up and pass legislation to tighten food regulation rules, increase government authority over large plants, and have serious consequences for companies that make people sick...

3-2-10: I'm not complaining about the lack of seasonal flu!!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703429304575095743102260012.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

3-1-10: Severe allergies to meat may be more common than people had thought:
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