NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite no federal or uniform state requirements to do so, all school districts should have a doctor to oversee school health services, according to a policy statement from ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's back to school time which means many students need to visit the doctor. Students entering pre-school, kindergarten, sixth grade and ninth grade are required to get a physical.

As summer break is set to end for tens of thousands of students across Greater Cincinnati, doctors say now is an important time to consider measures to protect children's health as they return to the ...

Through the Albany Med program, a doctor can prescribe Advil, Tylenol, allergy medicine and other over-the-counter medications that nurses are normally not allowed to give out. WATERVLIET — When a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It may no longer be acceptable for parents to give school nurses permission to give over-the-counter medicine for a stomach ache or headache without a doctor’s note. “The Board of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – A school district in Tennessee said doctor’s notes will no longer excuse a child’s absence. The Lawrence County School System said the policy is aimed at improving ...