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• Position: STATELINE - South Carolina's new regulation to allow school children to carry medicines - Brief article

A new law in South Carolina allows school children who suffer from illnesses such as asthma and diabetes to carry and administer their own medicines. Until now, most school districts required that only school personnel, usually nurses, give medicines to students. For asthmatics, a full-blown attack can hit within a matter of minutes. Those minutes can mean the difference between a quick recovery and a trip to the intensive care unit. "It empowers the child," says Shanda Taylor, state outreach coordinator for Project Breathe Easy. "They're...