A CDC advisement about myocarditis and pericarditis appears to be at the heart of a "more precautionary" approach to student-athlete sports physicals being taken by a practice in Lake Hopatcong.
The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association is providing online support in response to recent data from The National Athletic Trainer's Association showing student athletes experience mental health challenges more often than their peers.
A lawsuit filed by a group or women alleges that the University of Tennessee has violated Title IX policies and created a "hostile sexual environment" through a policy of indifference toward sexual assaults by student-athletes.
Eleven percent of high school athletes reported using prescribed pain medication just to get high by the time they were seniors and 75 percent of parents allow youth to manage their own medications, according to the findings of a recent study by the University of Michigan.
Legislation designed to protect student-athletes in secondary and high schools, in New Jersey and across the nation, has been formally introduced in Washington, D.C.