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ICAAP
The 2017 ICAAP Annual Poster
Session will be held on Friday, March 3 at the Hyatt Regency in Lisle, IL.
The Annual Educational Conference Planning Committee invites pediatricians,
fellows, residents, medical students, pediatric nurse practitioners, and other
pediatric health care providers to share their expertise in delivering
pediatric care in health care settings via a poster session during the
conference. Abstracts should focus on topics of relevance and interest for
clinical pediatric practice. For more information and to submit an
abstract, please view and complete the poster session application. Submissions are due by
Monday, January 30, 2017.
AAP
The
AAP Board of Directors is soliciting nominations to fill the following
vacancies for Member positions on AAP National Committees for terms
beginning July 1, 2017:
- Committee on Bioethics (COB)
- Committee on Coding and Nomenclature (COCN)
- Committee on Continuing Medical Education (COCME)
- Committee on Development (CODe)
- Committee on Drugs (COD)
- Committee on Infectious Diseases (COID)
- Committee on Membership (COM)
- Committee on Native American Child Health (CONACH)
- Committee on Nutrition (CON)
- Committee on Pediatric Workforce (COPW)
- Committee on Practice & Ambulatory Medicine
(COPAM)
- Committee on State Government Affairs (COSGA)
- Committee on Substance Use and Prevention (COSUP)
- Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and
Family Health (COPACFH)
- Committee on Pediatric Research (COPR)
- Committee on Medical Liability and Risk Management
(COMLRM)
Application materials for these
positions are available on the AAP Member Center, along with the statement of
needs and requirements for each Committee vacancy. Upon receipt of an
application, a request for Conflict of Interest Disclosure will be sent to
the candidate which will finalize the application process.
Members of AAP National Committees are
re-appointed every two years and may be re-appointed up to three times for
a total of six years. Committee member appointments are made on the basis
of knowledge, expertise, and the documented needs of the Committee. Within
this context, Academy membership demographics such as professional
activity, gender, ethnicity, and geographical distribution will be
considered, as well as chapter activity.
The deadline for nominations for 2017
positions is Friday, February 24, 2017 Nominees must submit the
completed application materials to their Chapter President and the
AAP at nominations@aap.org.
The State Journal-Register
Visits
by women and children to HSHS St. John's Hospital for outpatient care would
be more convenient, and the quality would improve, with a new $48 million
physician office building to be constructed on the hospital's downtown
Springfield campus. These are the potential benefits that officials at St.
John's and Hospital Sisters Health System are explaining to state
regulators as part of a 100-page request for a "certificate of
need" to allow construction of the project on the east side of North
Ninth Street.
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Fox News
An
11-year-old Illinois boy has become the youngest recipient of an artificial
heart, which will help sustain his life until he gets a heart transplant
match. Fox 32 Chicago reported that Jaheim Whigham was born with
hypoplastic heart syndrome, wherein the organ has only one functional
chamber. Whigham received a heart transplant at age 7, but four years
later, in October 2015, his body rejected the organ. READ
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STAT
On
the whole, fewer U.S. families have opted out of school-required
immunizations in recent years, thanks in part to stricter state laws. But
data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that,
while nonmedical exemptions (which includes religious and philosophical
opposition) are on the decline nationally, they're rising in certain
states, including states that haven't previously been considered hotbeds of
anti-vaccination sentiment — which may put those areas at risk of a disease
outbreak.
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ScienceDaily
In
"Effects of Childhood Asthma on the Development of Obesity among
School-Aged Children," researchers report that young children with
asthma were 51 percent more likely to become obese over the next decade as
children who did not have asthma. The researchers also found that the use
of asthma rescue medications reduced the risk of becoming obese by 43 percent.
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ConsumerAffairs
Kids
with autism are more than 3.5 times more likely to suffer from
gastrointestinal problems, such as constipation or chronic diarrhea,
according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Children with autism
might limit their diets to just a few foods, which can often lead to
constipation and belly pain. Now, new research suggests that these
gastrointestinal issues may occur in response to elevated stress hormone
levels. After administering a short stress test, researchers from the
University of Missouri School of Medicine found that the bodies of children
with autism tend to release higher than average levels of cortisol in
response to stress. READ
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By Lynn Hetzler
 Indoor smoking bans reduce the number of emergency
department visits in children with asthma, according to a new study.
Pediatric asthma is the most common serious chronic disease in infants and
children, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma &
Immunology. Secondhand smoke is a well-known trigger for asthma, and a
severe asthma attack can lead to a visit to the emergency room. About 6.3
million children in the U.S. suffer from this chronic respiratory
condition. READ
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Medical Xpress
Michael
Regnier writes: "There's a picture of our first daughter that my wife
can't bear to see. It was taken on Easter Sunday, 2008, the day she was
born. Although it was the start of spring, it was snowing in London.
Meanwhile, our daughter, just a few hours old, lay on a white blanket in an
incubator in a neonatal intensive care unit, tubes and wires sprouting out
of her. We'd done everything right – or so we thought. Sophie had gone into
labour naturally a week or two before her due date. When we got to the
hospital the following morning, a doctor was soon listening to the
heartbeats of mother and baby. Something was wrong. The baby's heartbeat
was too slow." READ
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Healio
Parents
who reduced their sedentary behavior and increased their physical activity
level had children who did the same, according to a study published in the American
Journal of Preventive Medicine. Researchers said the findings may
present opportunities for clinicians to discuss with their patients ways to
reverse the trend of obesity, which, according to the CDC, occurs in one in
six children and adolescents, and more than one-third of adults in the U.S.
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