Undercover research in Illinois reveals that dentists are far more willing to provide emergency care to children with private insurance than to kids with public insurance such as Medicaid.
Posing as mothers of a fictional 10-year-old boy with a fractured front tooth, six research assistants phoned 85 dental practices twice, four weeks apart, to determine the impact of insurance status on the practices' decision to schedule an urgent dental appointment. - US News and World Report
He has become a political phenomenon. He is wildly popular among South Africa’s angry black youth, who are increasingly resentful of black unemployment and white wealth. And when the country’s next president is chosen, it is Mr. Malema who is likely to be the kingmaker. Read more…
Four white Philadelphia teachers charge in federal race-bias lawsuits that a black principal suggested they were unfit to teach black students.
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On the big screen, actresses Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal are set to start shooting the movie Still I Rise in Pittsburgh. Davis will star as "a middle-class teacher and mother of one child in a story about two strong women who channel their frustration into action and join forces to transform an inner-city school." But real school transformation is rarely the work of one or two individuals, no matter how strong. In reality, if parents or other influential community parties aren't invested, achieving academic goals with students is pretty difficult. School-wide change rarely happens without the close collaboration of an entire community. Still, in movies like Lean on Me or Freedom Writers, we see some superhuman protagonist (or two) saving a school. - GOOD
Two months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, communities in the affected areas are still struggling to get back to normal. And while nothing will ever be exactly the same again, the process of getting schools up and running and kids back to studying continues to help the process and have a therapeutic effect on students. - GOOD
Young adults who take risks on the roads such as cutting up other drivers or speeding are more likely to experience anxiety and depression, say researchers.
Psychological distress, such as depression and anxiety, has been linked to risky behaviour in adolescents, including having unprotected sex, smoking and binge drinking.
Scientists from Queensland University of Technology, Australia, set out to find if there was a similar link between psychological distress and risk taking among young drivers. | Mail Online
A British mother who admitted on American TV that she gave her eight-year-old daughter Botox injections has had the child taken away by social workers.
Britney Campbell was removed from the care of her mother Kerry after the TV appearance boasting about the beauty treatment sparked outrage across the U.S.
Hundreds of complaints were received when she was featured on the Good Morning America show injecting her daughter with the anti-wrinkle treatment. | Mail Online
Students who enjoy regular pub crawls assuming there will be no consequences are actually putting their long-term memory at risk, scientists warn.
A study has found that binge drinking affects the brain's hippocampus, which plays a key role in learning and memory.
The brain structure is particularly sensitive to the poisonous effect of alcohol no matter what your age.| Mail Online
When 16-year-old Amy Myers launched her campaign to be class president at Cherry Hill East High School in New Jersey, the boys in her sophomore class began teasing her. And that crash course in how aspiring female leaders get judged on the basis of gender led, in a roundabout way, to Myers' challenge to debate Minnesota GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann on the Constitution. - Full Story »
Adolescents bring unique challenges to the table. Many are at the age where speaking out loud about sex is still embarrassing. No matter how many times we reassure them that we will not inform their parents of our discussion, they are wary. And, in extreme situations, you never get to privately interview the teen because the parent refuses to leave the room.
So, when an adolescent arrives in the emergency department with abdominal pain, urinary symptoms or vaginal complaints, it is hard not to suspect and test for sexually transmitted infections, even if they deny ever having sex -- especially since the consequences of missing one of these infections can be life-threatening.
Untreated sexually transmitted infections can lead to scarring, causing infertility long before a teenage girl even considers conceiving a child, or ectopic pregnancy -- a life-threatening emergency where the pregnancy is growing outside of the uterus. The infections themselves can worsen, forming pus in the abdomen or spreading to the rest of the body, causing major illness.
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On May 5, dozens of members of Friends and Family Members of Youth Incarcerated at Walnut Grove -- an organization founded by McIntosh -- held a news conference to announce the delivery of petitions to Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps, calling on him to cancel the system's contract with the GEO Group, the Florida company that runs the facility. (Epps said in an email to The Root that he could not comment because of pending litigation. Pablo Paez, a spokesman for GEO Group, also declined to comment via email.)
Rapper, M-Bone from the group Cali Swag District, died of gunshot wounds today. | News One
