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Study to assess how full-day kindergarten impacts children’s health

Does full-day kindergarten improve children’s health? That’s the big question UNLV health sciences researchers plan to examine. Researchers are partnering with the Kansas Health Institute to create a health impact assessment that will inform how possible state legislative changes to full-day kindergarten could impact children’s health.

Exams, vaccines get Las Vegas kids ready for school

Given that scientists say one of the greatest public health victories of the last century was the discovery of safe and effective vaccines, it comes as little surprise to most parents in Nevada that children must have the appropriate vaccinations to attend school.