It may sound like Fifty Shades of Grey for the high school set, but it's actually a ninth grade health textbook, and it has been temporarily taken out of classrooms in California's Fremont Unified ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Few health care professionals would argue with the fact that vast differences exist in access to and outcomes of the care their patients receive, but the reasons why health disparities ...

The birds and the bees? Fine for high school kids. Hundreds of Fremont parents say that's inappropriate and have organized a petition drive and are threatening legal action over the district's new ...

Sometimes the best way to get into a healthy habit is to read about it. These eight book recommendations are rooted in ...

Matthew Gribble, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the UAB School of Public Health, is one of the editors and a contributing author on a new textbook Oceans and Human Health: Opportunities ...

The Fremont school board has backed off the use of a new health and sex education textbook, sending the book back to the publisher in the hope it can be modified to mollify parents angry about ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has revised a textbook for a required fitness course that called cancer “a disease of choice” and included a theory asserting Holocaust ...

AUSTIN - New public school health textbooks that teach abstinence exclusively and address concerns about homosexuality by defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman were adopted Friday.

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