Cultivating Wellness

School children across the U.S. are harvesting what they have planted….By that, BoardBuzz means that students are literally planting and picking vegetables in “urban” gardens within schools. An...

California law puts school kids with diabetes in a bind

The Sacramento Bee reports that a state court has ruled that a state law prohibits school personnel other than nurses from administering insulin injections to students with diabetes. Nurses...

No smoking please!

Smoking is hazardous for your health. We have heard it over and over again, yet somehow, each year, more than a million new smokers pop up around the country. So who are these new smokers? Why are...

Food allergy on the rise

A new CDC report shows that food allergy among children in the United States is seriously on the rise – over the past decade, there has been an 18 percent increase in such diagnoses. With 4 out of...

Sing happy birthday twice

BoardBuzz knows that we all wash our hands for obvious reasons; certainly, to be clean. But handwashing is also key to disease prevention practices in many settings including schools, and all it...