SUNRISE, Fla.
,
Feb. 19
, the only
swim school with indoor heated pools, has announced today the opening
of a new location in Cutler Ridge at Southland mall serving the
Miami, Florida
.
British Swim School teaches children and adults how to swim, starting with
babies as young as 3 months old. With 25 years of experience,
courtesy of British Swim School has become more affordable and
easier.
and has taught thousands of kids and Read the rest of this entry »

Authorities said that most of the injuries were minor but that one student, a 17-year-old male, suffered a head injury during a fall and was knocked unconscious. They said the youth was taken by ambulance to Howard University Hospital and regained consciousness on the way.
Alan Etter, a spokesman for the D.C. fire department, said that about 15 students complained of injuries and that five were treated at hospitals.
“Basically it was a huge brawl Read the rest of this entry »

UNION COUNTY, Fla. – Four students in Union County were rushed to an area hospital on Wednesday after a pickup truck driver rear-ended their school bus.
The wreck took place at about 3:15 p.m. after school on State Road 121 just south of Raiford.
Union County Sheriff’s deputies said a pickup truck driver failed to stop at an intersection and rear-ended the bus.
Four of the students onboard the bus were take to Lake Butler Hospital as a precaution.
Read the rest of this entry »

In a ceremony at the school, Fernandez de Kirchner,
on behalf of the Argentinean youths taking medical courses and their
relatives, thanked Raul Castro for the efforts of the Cuban people
and government to develop the ELAM project, which she dubbed as
something more than giving Latin American youths the chance to
become doctors, but as an integration practice.
“Nowadays youngsters remind me of those times when the strength Read the rest of this entry »

Despite the economic downturn and a 25 percent decline in the University’s endowment, the Yale School of
remains, in many respects, on strong financial footing, Dean Richard Alpern said in a letter issued Friday to the medical school community.
policy — which eliminates the parental contribution from families making under $100,000 — Alpern said the School of Medicine will postpone some of its initiatives at the University’s West Campus, Read the rest of this entry »

Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Police are trying to figure out how five South Philadelphia second-graders got their hands on heroin.
A gym teacher at McDaniels Elementary School saw the kids, who ranged in age from 7 to 8, passing around what appeared to be drugs around and called police, MyFOXPhilly.com reported.
The substance later tested positive for heroin.
The students were rushed Tuesday to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where one Read the rest of this entry »

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A minivan swerved across a road and collided with a school bus carrying high school students, sending 10 students and three other people to hospitals, the State Highway Patrol said.
None of the injuries to the students was serious, said a patrol spokesman, Lt. John Altman. All were treated at a hospital and released. Injuries to the two occupants of the minivan were serious, Altman said.
Elmer Johnson Jr., 32, and Angela Read the rest of this entry »

Unemployment rolls are swelling, causing parents and their children to lose their employer-sponsored health insurance and prompting many to turn to Arizona’s more than 90 school-based clinics.
“The people who never thought they’d be utilizing the centers are coming in now,” said Sharon Heuer, president of the Arizona School-Based Health Care Council and director of two health centers in Scottsdale. “They are saying, ‘I never would have thought it Read the rest of this entry »

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – A Clay County father said he wants answers after his daughter and two other kids at her elementary school were accused of selling drugs and facing possible punishment all over some Vitamin C drops.
The 9-year-old girl told Channel 4 that she thinks of things like cigarettes as drugs, and she was confused when her teacher told her Halls are also considered a drug.
Fourth-grade student Khalin Rivenbark said her teacher accused Read the rest of this entry »

HAMILTON, Ontario, Jan. 21 — Gym class and other school fitness initiatives should be pursued even if their benefits don’t include weight loss, according to a systematic review.
School-based fitness and exercise programs improved duration of physical activity and fitness as measured by lung capacity while reducing television viewing and blood cholesterol, reported Maureen Dobbins, Ph.D., of McMaster University here, and colleagues in a Cochrane Read the rest of this entry »