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Do you need help getting your kids to be more active? VIDEO: Do you need help getting your kids to be more active? By Dawndy Mercer Plank | May 5, 2021 at 2:07 PM EDT - Updated May 5 at 6:50 PM COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - How much exercise are your children getting? Federal guidelines call for kids to be physically active for 60 minutes per day, but many U.S. children are not achieving that. The barriers to children’s physical activity have been somewhat challenging during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Parents, experts say you play a key role in insuring your children are physically act...

Miami-Dade’s Black Communities Lag in Vaccination Rates Vaccination rates were lower in communities where people lack access to vehicles and health insurance. Overall, vaccination rates were 30 percent lower in ZIP codes where more than a quarter of residents live in poverty. April 27, 2021 •  TNS (TNS) - Roselle Monestime Noel, a 68-year-old home healthcare aide from North Miami, tried to get a coronavirus vaccine for two months. It shouldn't have been so hard, Noel thought. Her age and job made her among the first group eligible under Florida's vaccine roll-out. But the odds were agai...

Pentagon chief Austin among speakers to South Carolina grads By MEG KINNARDApril 22, 2021 GMT COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin is among the speakers at the University of South Carolina’s spring’s commencement exercises, which are being held in-person at the school’s massive football stadium for the first time. Austin will speak May 8 to graduates of the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Information and Communications and the South Carolina Honors College, university officials said Thursday. A day earlier, Gov. Henry McMaster will address gradu...

Researchers reveal urban-rural disparity in U.S. children's oral health Meaningful legislation addressing health care inequities in the U.S. will require studies examining potential health disparities due to geographic location or economic status. An interdisciplinary team at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and the University of South Carolina (UofSC) report in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry that rural children are less likely to receive preventive dental care than urban children. Using samples from 20,842 respondents from a 2017 National Survey of Children's Health, t...

Date Time Brushing away oral health disparities in America’s rural children Meaningful legislation addressing health care inequities in the U.S. will require studies examining potential health disparities due to geographic location or economic status. An interdisciplinary team at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and the University of South Carolina (UofSC) report in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry that rural children are less likely to receive preventive dental care than urban children. Using samples from 20,842 respondents from a 2017 National Survey of Children’s H...