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  It’s a chilly Tuesday morning and students at...

  Here’s the weekly roundup from BagtheJunk.org, NEA HIN’s sister website dedicated to all things healthy school food: National School Lunch Week Shines a Spotlight on Healthy School Food ...

  Here’s the weekly roundup from BagtheJunk.org, NEA HIN’s sister website dedicated to all things healthy school food:  Sugary Snacks Compete with Healthy Snacks at Schools is the first of...

Topics: Asthma, Green Schools, Indoor Air Quality, Indoor Environmental Quality   Earth Week is almost upon us (April 22-26), and the green schools movement continues to grow.  Here are the latest act...

  In October 1902, the first school nurse in the United States, Lina Rogers, began a long tradition of providing disease prevention and health promotion to students and their families.  Within the fir...

  November is American Diabetes Month. As we enter a holiday season of family—and—calories it’s good to remember the steps to take to be healthy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (...

“She’s blue!” I was three-years-old, and my mother had minutes before given me a walnut to snack on as I rode in the backseat during a family road trip. I was suddenly quiet – ...

Topics: Bag The Junk, Bloodborne Pathogens, Breakfast in the Classroom, Chronic Disease, Allergies in School, Immunization, Indoor Air Quality, Indoor Environmental Quality, Jerald L. Newberry School ...

  Is anyone thinking about the adults who work in and around schools? NEA HIN is—and so are thousands of NEA nurses and school health professionals.   Nurses and other school health professionals lead...