Headache education for the physician begins in medical school. The American Headache Society has endorsed a curriculum and core competencies.

ISSUES AND PURPOSE To examine the nature of daily hassles as perceived by African-American adolescent females. DESIGN AND METHODS As part of a larger, cross-sectional study, nonrandom network sampling technique was used to survey 178 adolescent girls between the ages of 11 and 19. RESULTS This study found that the most common hassles were school and academic, followed by family and economic...

Consistency, quality, and duration of sleep are important determinants of health. We describe sleep patterns among demographically defined subgroups from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System reported in 4 successive biennial representative samples of American high school students (2007 to 2013). Across the 4 waves of data collection, 6.2% to 7.7% of females and 8.0% to 9.4% of males repo...

From the Cardiovascular Research Center, Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital and Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI. Presented at the 2010 American Heart Association meeting in Chicago, IL, November 12–16, 2010. The online-only Data Supplement is available at http://circ.ahajournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.012112/-/DC1. Correspondence to R...

This study was designed to identify reasons underrepresented minority (URM) dental students select a dental school and to determine the factors that contribute to their resolve to complete their programs. A survey questionnaire developed from interviews with URM students was sent to Minority/Admissions Officers or deans of dental schools that enrolled URM students for distribution to their mino...

To address gaps in the literature regarding the role of family routine on school disengagement and delinquent behaviors, we tested whether family routine moderated relations between school disengagement and delinquent behaviors in an urban, low socioeconomic status (SES), African American sample of adolescents (N = 204, 48% male). Adolescents reported on school disengagement and delinquent beha...

It is well established that parental knowledge contributes to adolescents' well-being and school success and scholars have noted that parents and adolescents report different levels of knowledge. Discrepancies in parental knowledge have implications for adolescent outcomes such as risk behaviors, but little is known about the implications of knowledge discrepancies for adolescents' school outco...

This paper explores the role of gender and ethnicity in the education of Cambodian American high school students. Using a qualitative approach, we interviewed ninth-grade Cambodian American students (n=10), teachers (n=4), and administrators (n=2) at a Southern California high school. The data revealed that Cambodian students were often mistaken for other Asian groups and due to stereotypes, ex...

An examination of the heights and weights of members of the Parade Magazine's High School All-American Football Teams from 1963-1971 indicates no significant changes in the Body Mass Index of these elite athletes whereas an increased pattern in Body Mass Index was noted within this group from 1972-1989. The large increases in Body Mass Index after 1971 among the All-American high school footbal...

Connie L. Davis,* William E. Harmon, Jonathan Himmelfarb, Thomas Hostetter, Neil Powe, Paul Smedberg, Lynda A. Szczech, and Peter S. Aronson for the American Society of Nephrology Public Policy Board *Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Division of Nephrology, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ...