Every Child Left Behind As a school-based therapist, I see many changes since I was in elementary school. It seems the only thing that has remained are the shelter drills, and  even they disappeared for a while! No Child Left Behind, which was enacted in 2001, is a standards-based education reform law. Success will be due to the high ...

ADHD goes beyond school walls and follow adults into their workday. Science Daily reports people with ADHD actually work 22 days less per year than people who do not have the disorder. The study is published in the May British Medical Journal In a WHO World Mental Health Survey Initiative, administrators screened more than 7,000 employed and ...

The article starts out promising good PR for nurse practitioners: ''Peggy O'Donnell, a Lynbrook nurse practitioner, knows a thing or two about picking a good primary care physician.'' This is O'Donnell's opportunity to explain that an NP often can be your primary care provider — and even better, that there are studies that show that NP care is ...

Last year I worked three jobs. So far this year it has been only two, but I am working on my third and it is only the beginning of the year. Some may ask why I would want that many jobs in one year and why I would want to ''job jump.'' Let me explain. Last year I quit one job and took another so I could be closer to home with my family. I also ...

A pharmaceutical marketing research corporation came out with a list of the top most commonly search health conditions. According to comScore Inc., Reston, VA, the terms ''pregnancy'' and ''cancer'' were the two most frequently searched conditions, garnering 8.8 million and 7.7 million search queries respectively. Five of the top 20 conditions ...

Angie's List has plans to let consumers rate their health care providers. The 12-year-old Indianapolis-based company maintains lists of consumer ratings for all kinds of local businesses and services. According to a company press release, the 600,000 list members have been asking for years to add health care providers, hospitals and insurers to ...

A recent survey by Deloitte revealed that Americans want health care to change. This may come as no surprise, but some of the study's findings, taken from a sample of 3,000 respondents, are of interest: 66% were in favor of a state-mandated health insurance. 34% say they would use a retail clinic; 16 percent already have. 60% want ...

I recently saw an item in the news where a reporter was interviewing an obviously excited resident of a retirement home. The reporter was doing a story on the elderly and their use of a video game system called the Wii made by Nintendo.  Video games played on devices, such as the Microsoft Xbox 360 or the Sony PlayStation, are typically ...

I have hypertension. I'm taking meds, exercising a little more, avoiding fatty foods when I can, and doing some of the other things that are supposed to be good for my almost-40-year-old ticker - like drinking more red wine, for example.   I'm also an editor for ADVANCE for Nurses, including this Web site. And so I've edited numerous ...

Despite being the most joyous time of year, the holiday season can be tough for many reasons. The biggest trap that most Americans try not to fall into year after year is gaining weight as a result of over-indulging and under-exercising. According to a recent CNN article, some people may put on five to seven pounds thanks to a steady diet of ...