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For many parents dealing with children's foibles and independent teenagers, no meal can be quite as difficult as the humble school lunch.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, children, adolescent-health, primary-schools, public-schools, secondary-schools, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAs an alarming number of young children present with eye damage due to ultraviolet light exposure, doctors call on schools to make sunglasses a compulsory uniform requirement.
Topics: child-health-and-behaviour, health, adolescent-health, diseases-and-disorders, schools, sydney-2000
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A free vaccination program to protect teenagers from the W strain of the deadly meningococcal disease has been announced by the New South Wales Government.
Topics: meningococcal-disease, diseases-and-disorders, vaccines-and-immunity, adolescent-health, government-and-politics, nsw
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| UpdatedFor eight per cent of students, mental health issues make attending school impractical. What can be done?
Topics: public-schools, secondary-schools, adolescent-health, travancore-3032
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Topics: rural-youth, exercise-and-fitness, adolescent-health, marble-bar-6760
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| UpdatedDid it seem like your child outgrew their school uniform in a matter of weeks? Studies have shown kids grow faster in the school holidays than during term and are generally taller than children a decade ago.
Topics: education, health, adolescent-health, child-health-and-behaviour, schools, human-interest, sydney-2000, australia
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| UpdatedIf your child does not like to read, sits as close as they can to the television or acts up in the classroom, it is probably time to have their eyes tested.
Topics: eyes, adolescent-health, health, child-health-and-behaviour, children, schools, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedA father and son who both have Tourette Syndrome say it is time to put an end to the stigma surrounding the disorder.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, child-health-and-behaviour, adolescent-health, family-and-children, cessnock-2325
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| UpdatedA psychiatrist who carried out assessments on former detainees from Darwin's infamous Don Dale detention centre says mistreating and isolating children has exacerbated the problems.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, youth, community-and-society, adolescent-health, child-health-and-behaviour, nt
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| UpdatedResearch finds children given alcohol by parents are more likely to start drinking earlier, but less likely to binge.
Topics: alcohol-education, alcohol, health, education, adolescent-health, australia
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The WA Country Health Service says more than 1,500 children have been vaccinated since an emergency roll-out began this week.
Topics: meningococcal-disease, adolescent-health, health, government-and-politics, health-administration, kalgoorlie-6430, coolgardie-6429, kambalda-6442, boulder-6432
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A child health expert says Aboriginal youth in Kalgoorlie are the solution, not the problem, and leaders need to listen to them.
Topics: youth, rural-youth, aboriginal, indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture, drugs-and-substance-abuse, mental-health, adolescent-health, kalgoorlie-6430
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Topics: youth, rural-youth, aboriginal, indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture, drugs-and-substance-abuse, mental-health, adolescent-health, kalgoorlie-6430
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Topics: skin-cancer, adolescent-health, medical-research, maroochydore-4558
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Topics: skin-cancer, adolescent-health, medical-research, maroochydore-4558
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Topics: skin-cancer, adolescent-health, medical-research, maroochydore-4558
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Topics: skin-cancer, adolescent-health, medical-research, maroochydore-4558
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Australian researchers hope the confronting images from a new UV camera in the country will improve skin cancer awareness in the hard-to-reach adolescent demographic.
Topics: skin-cancer, medical-research, adolescent-health, maroochydore-4558
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Topics: mental-health, adolescent-health, animals, wodonga-3690, albury-2640
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Topics: mental-health, animals, adolescent-health, wodonga-3690, albury-2640
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An eight-year-old golden retriever called Bonnie has been recruited by a non-profit in Wodonga to help clients during counselling sessions.
Topics: mental-health, adolescent-health, anxiety, depression, animals, wodonga-3690, albury-2640
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| UpdatedA simple redesign of school toilets is changing a long-standing problem in Vanuatu's schools.
Topics: adolescent-health, health, pacific, vanuatu
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Queenslanders are living longer and taking better care of their health but being admitted to hospitals at unsustainable levels, a new report suggests, while the state can thank Tasmania for overtaking it on obesity rates.
Topics: health, obesity, health-insurance, adolescent-health, smoking, qld, tas
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Revelations a growing number of children are seriously injuring their knees prompt a call for the creation of a national database to record juvenile sports injuries, and for parents and coaches to become better educated about training young athletes.
Topics: health, sports-injuries, adolescent-health, diseases-and-disorders, family-and-children, children, sport, australia
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Doctors, physiotherapists and sports injury experts say they are seeing a rise in the number of children having knee surgery, with some suggesting kids' sports becoming more "professional" could be part of the problem.
Topics: sports-injuries, health, adolescent-health, diseases-and-disorders, family-and-children, children, community-and-society, sport, australia