Delay morning school start for teens: pediatricians

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Delay morning school start for teens: pediatricians

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/delay-morning-school-start-teens-pediatricians-041419557.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qN8828i5pSRoE51N0AQ8Mg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-08-25T041419Z_1_LYNXMPEA7O053_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Precious Perez listens during a class on United States history at a high school in Chelsea, Massachusetts" align="left" title="Precious Perez listens during a class on United States history at a high school in Chelsea, Massachusetts" border="0" /></a>By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Middle and high schools should delay their start times to at least 8:30 a.m. to benefit the health and welfare of students, according to a new policy statement from a large organization of U.S. “We want to engage in at least starting a discussion in the community,” Dr. Judith Owens told Reuters Health. “Hopefully as a result of that the importance of sleep health as a priority will become more prominent.” Owens, a sleep medicine specialist at Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., led the AAP’s Adolescent Sleep Working Group, Council on School Health and Committee on Adolescence in writing the new policy. “I think that we definitely acknowledge that changing school start times is a challenge for many communities and that there are political, logistical and financial considerations associated with that, but at the end of the day this is something that communities can do to have a significant and definite impact of the health of their population,” Owens said.</p><br clear="all"/>

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