School Checklist: Get a Head Start on Health Requirements

If your student athlete needs a physical, or your child is due for shots, you can get those school requirements out of the way before summer heats up.

Pediatricians at Cook Children’s advise families not to wait until August to come in for a sports physical or the routine vaccines that incoming kindergarteners and seventh-graders need.

“Getting those updated physicals, immunization records and forms ready ahead of time is a good idea so that nothing is delayed,” said

Bhavana Babber, M.D., who sees patients at Cook Children’s Pediatrics North Frisco…

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