Thousands of children show up at the emergency room every year with backpack-related injuries. Now, a new study provides evidence that heavy backpacks really do strain children's spines.

Like adorable turtles, their little limbs poking out from under outsized shells, kids shuffle their ways to school bearing on their shoulders ever-heavier backpacks. Even high schoolers have to ...

We heard throughout our formative years that lugging around a heavy backpack was terrible for our backs. But now that we're older, the damage may have already been done — and we may even be ...

The National Safety Council says it’s not just the weight–but how you carry it: opt for a two-strapped backpack ... tablets and computers replacing heavy textbooks help, but days spent ...

That means her backpack weighs 6 kilos – about 13 pounds. That's a violation of the rules passed by the Indian government. It's not the only heavy backpack in school circles. Vishnu Kumar Chheda ...