|
|
ICAAP
ICAAP is participating in a Day
of Action on Tuesday, March 23, 2017 to support the Healthy Eating
Active Living (HEAL) Act in ongoing state budget negotiations. The proposed
tax would bring new revenue to Illinois and invest in community health. The
HEAL Act proposes a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks (excluding
diet/low sugar drinks and milk) that would be paid by the distributor and
would invest funds into community health and the Medicaid program.
A recent Harvard University study concluded
that this tax would prevent 116,000 cases of obesity, reduce diabetes by
9%, and reduce health care costs by $733 million in Illinois over a 10-year
period. It would also generate about $560 million of revenue per year and
fund community health prevention programs and Medicaid. Look for an alert
from ICAAP on May 23 with all of the information, including phone and email
scripts, you will need to contact your state legislator. For any questions,
please contact Mary Elsner, Director of Obesity Prevention Initiatives, at
312/733-1026 ext 220 or melsner@illinoisaap.com.
ICAAP
ICAAP
will be presenting two free CME-approved webinars over the lunch hour for
physicians, health care providers, and those interested in the effects of
climate change on their patients' health.
Webinar 1* – Wednesday, May 24, 2017
12-1pm
The first webinar Preparing Pediatric
Providers to Address Health Effects of Climate Change: Heat-Related
Illness, Asthma, and Allergies will focus on climate change's impact on
air quality, respiratory health, and heat related illnesses. Register here.
Webinar 2* – Wednesday, June 21, 2017
12-1pm
The second webinar Preparing Pediatric
Providers to Address Health Effects of Climate Change: Vector-Borne
Diseases, Public Health Implications from Floods, and Mental Health
Concerns will focus on climate change's impact on vector borne
illnesses, extreme weather events, and mental health. Register here.
Presenters include Samuel Dorevitch, MD,
MPH, and Elena Grossman, MPH with the Building Resilience Against Climate
Effects (BRACE) Project, University of Illinois at Chicago, Environmental
and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health.
 *The Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1
Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with
the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Illinois Chapter, American Academy of
Pediatrics is accredited by the Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS) to
provide continuing medical education for physicians.
ICAAP
This
year, ICAAP is hosting six Illinois Vaccine Summits. The first three events
are full, but there are three additional events later this year. The
summits are all-day, in-person educational sessions ICAAP coordinates in
collaboration with a planning committee. Planning committee members include
local pediatric and family private practices, AFIX local public health
departments, and other Vaccines For Children (VFC) providers, local
pediatricians that are ICAAP members and regional Illinois Department of
Public Health (IDPH) regional representatives. Topics on the agenda include
vaccine requirements for school entry, 2017 ACIP Updates, Illinois VFC
storage and handling requirements, I-CARE, and vaccine hesitancy. Please register today to claim your spot!
Advocate Children's Hospital
Advocate
Children's Hospital is hosting a behavioral health conference focused on The
Challenging Child: Why Children Act Out and How We Can Help on Monday,
June 5 from 9:15am-5pm at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. The
conference will address the many factors that contribute to externalizing
behaviors, such as tantrums, defiance, arguing, and impulsivity and will
discuss behavioral, educational and medical strategies to help children and
families develop healthier patterns of behavior. For more information, view
the conference agenda and register online.
The Midwest Access Project and American
Civil Liberties Union of Illinois
The
Midwest Access Project and American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois are
hosting a training on comprehensive pregnancy options counseling and the
Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act. The event will be held on
Saturday, June 10 in Springfield. Please register by June 6. Please contact Emily Werth
with any questions at ewerth@aclu-il.org
or 312/201-9740 ext 333.
WLS-TV
Noah
Barnes is walking close to a marathon — every day. His motivation: bring an
end to Type 1 Diabetes. "I think I get two to six of these," he
says, holding up a needle. As a diabetic, 11-year-old Noah has to
constantly keep an eye on his blood sugar levels, meaning he needs to be
"poked" all day long to see if he needs insulin. READ
MORE
Chicago Tribune
Lyying
in a hospital bed at Northwestern Memorial's Prentice Women's Hospital
after giving birth in 2011, Erica Fleischer kept replaying what had just
happened. She had delivered her first child by cesarean section. Exhausted
after 13 hours of labor, with the baby not yet descended, the Lakeview mom
said she agreed to a C-section. But having encountered no major
complications, she felt frustrated by the feeling that she might have been
able to deliver vaginally. "All that was in my mind was, 'I don't want
this to happen again next time,'" said Fleischer, 39. READ
MORE
HealthDay News
Fewer
U.S. babies are dying from SIDS, but certain minorities remain at greater
risk, a new study finds. Researchers who tracked cases of Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome (SIDS) from 1995 through 2013 found that American
Indian/Alaska Natives and blacks had double the rate in 2013 compared to
whites. That was so despite a significant decline in SIDS rates among blacks
during the study period, the researchers found. READ
MORE
U.S. Food & Drug Administration
The
U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently authorized use of the Flourish
Pediatric Esophageal Atresia Anastomosis, a first-of-its-kind medical
device to treat infants up to one year old for a birth defect that causes a
gap in their esophagus, called esophageal atresia. An estimated 1 in every
2,500 babies in the U.S. is born with esophageal atresia. Babies with this
condition cannot feed normally, and they require a feeding tube until
surgery can be performed to attach the esophagus to the stomach. READ
MORE
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The
body mass index calculations that physicians have been relying on for
decades may not be accurate for assessing body fat in adolescents between
the ages of 8 and 17. A new study published recently in the Journal of
the American Medical Association Pediatrics shows that tri-ponderal
mass index estimates body fat more accurately than the traditional BMI in
adolescents. READ
MORE
Medical Xpress
Pulling
away the seal of a fresh aromatherapy patch, Dr. John Daniel took a deep
inhalation as the fragrance of lavender and chamomile essential oils
permeated his surroundings. Daniel was ending an overnight shift in the
neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and one waft of lavender was enough to
calm his senses and induce a state of relaxation. While popular with
pediatric residents, fellows and nurses in the NICU, the aromatherapy
patches are meant to soothe and mitigate stress in the hospital's smallest
and most agitated patients—babies suffering from drug withdrawal. READ
MORE
News-Medical.net
The
patient-centered study's premise was straightforward: Since there is a
definite link between parents' psychosocial stress levels and asthma
suffered by inner city kids, if you provide stressed-out parents effective
coping skills, would kids take their medicines more regularly and would
their health improve? A $2.2 million, first-of-its kind randomized study
found no differences between kids with asthma who received standard care
based on National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines compared with kids whose
parents received stress-mitigation techniques in addition to evidence-based
asthma care. READ
MORE
ScienceDaily
Metformin,
the most widely used drug to treat type 2 diabetes, could potentially be
used to treat symptoms of Fragile X syndrome, an inherited form of
intellectual disability and a cause of some forms of autism. A new study
led by researchers at McGill University, the University of Edinburgh and
Université de Montréal has found that metformin improves social,
behavioural and morphological defects in Fragile X mice. READ
MORE
|
Missed last
week's issue? See which articles your colleagues read most.
|
Don't be left
behind. Click here to see what else you
missed.
|
|
|
