September 2017 … Community volunteers who work at Quest Diagnostics in Horsham, Pa., have been great supporters of Healthy NewsWorks since 2014. Members of the QuestCares volunteer team recently helped assemble 400 student reporter kits for the upcoming school...
September 2017 … Several students who participated in the Healthy NewsWorks program during the 2016-17 school year shared reflections on their experiences with community members earlier this year. Here are excerpts of their comments, delivered during the...
September 2017 … A newly posted Healthy NewsWorks video explains the function of bones in the body and gives examples of how people can help strengthen them. Student reporters for the La Salle Academy Healthy News used their research, reporting, and writing...
September 2017 … More than 140 children in kindergarten through second grade will become reporters this fall as part of the Hearty Kids Initiative, a new Healthy NewsWorks pilot project focused on heart health. Hearty Kids will expand on the Healthy NewsWorks...
August 2017 … The importance of using bike helmets and some of the ways people can spot and prevent concussions were among the topics when a group of fifth grade reporters recently interviewed Cathy Markey. “I’m always interested in young people who want to...
August 2017 … Sometimes Healthy NewsWorks interviews are as much a revelation for the health leaders as for the student reporters. When Dr. Cheryl Bettigole, the director of the Division of Chronic Disease Prevention in Philadelphia’s Department of Public...
