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| Sickle Cell Disease – Teacher Education SchoolNurse.com:AAP Recommendations on Teen Pregnancy Sickle Cell Disease – Teacher Education About one-third of children with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at risk for a stroke before age 18, and over half of these students are retained a..  |
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Separation anxiety is a normal developmental phenomenon from age 10 months to early preschool years. Separation anxiety disorder, however, is a problem that reaches beyond those years. It is an anxiety disorder that often involves persistent problems with attending school or other activities away from home because of fear of separation. Reactions to separation are extreme. Symptoms of separation anxiety occur in as many as 50% of 8-year-olds, whereas the prevalence of the full disorder is estimated at closer to 4%. .
This article is a review of the literature on habit cough, tic cough and psychogenic cough. For pediatric data, articles were identified dating from 1966 to February 2005 using searches of several data bases. 
Asthma is responsible for more total school absences than any other chronic health condition. School nurses in one Midwest urban district participated in a study of absences in students with or without asthma, relationships between absences and asthma severity, and percentage of absences due to asthma symptoms. .
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