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ICAAP
Register today for the 2017 ICAAP Annual
Educational Conference! The conference will be held on Friday, March 3,
2017 at the Hyatt Regency in Lisle. The H. Garry Gardner Memorial
Lecture speaker is Dr. David J. Schonfeld, a national expert on school
crisis and bereavement. Dr. Schonfeld will discuss Supporting
Children in Times of Crisis.
Breakout session topics include:
- Period Problems: What is Normal and When to
Worry
- Principles in Behavioral Management:
Implications for Effective Discipline
The annual poster session
will be held from 10:45-11:30am. Pediatricians, fellows, residents,
medical students, pediatric nurse practitioners, and other pediatric
health care providers are invited to share their expertise in
delivering pediatric care in health care settings. 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.
If you have any questions or would like
more information about the ICAAP Annual Educational Conference, please
contact Dru
O'Rourke.
 The Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
is accredited by the Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS) to provide
continuing medical education for physicians.
The Illinois Chapter, American Academy
of Pediatrics designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.5 AMA
PRA Category1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit
commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ICAAP
Body
mass index reduction in children with overweight and obesity can be
challenging. Psychosocial stressors, such as adverse childhood
experiences, unmet social needs, and psychiatric disorders, may
represent an important reason why pediatric obesity is so difficult to
treat. Learn how to address these issues in your practice with ICAAP’s
upcoming MOC activity Identification and Management of Psychosocial
Stressors in Children with Overweight and Obesity. Participants
will learn about the connection between psychosocial stressors and
obesity as well as practical tips on how to screen, counsel, and refer
for one focused psychosocial stressor of their choice. The
collaborative project is slated to begin in mid-January 2017 and run
for approximately three months. The deadline for registration is
Monday, January 16, 2017. To register or for more information, please contact Anna Carvlin,
Manager, Obesity Prevention Initiatives, at 312/733-1026, ext 214 or acarvlin@illinoisaap.com
or Mary Elsner, Director of Obesity Prevention Initiatives, melsner@illinoisaap.com
or 312/733-1026, ext 237. This activity is funded by a grant from the
Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services and the Otho S.
A. Sprague Memorial Institute.
ICAAP
Please
save the date for ICAAP Lobby Day on Wednesday, April 5, 2017.
ICAAP members will go to Springfield to meet with legislators and
advocate for Illinois children and families. More information will be
available soon. If you have questions, please contact Dru O'Rourke at dorourke@illinoisaap.com.
Chicago
Department of Public Health
Chicago Healthy Adolescents & Teens (CHAT) is an
age appropriate sexual health website for adolescents. Topics include
STIs, pregnancy, identity, relationships, body basics, and locating
resources and clinics.
Connect4Tots is a text-message
service for parents and guardians of toddlers ages 1 to 3. By
enrolling, parents and guardians will receive 2-3 free text messages
per week with information on their child's growth and development as
well as connections to health, education, public service, and event
resources in the City of Chicago. To enroll, parents and guardians
should text TOTOPT7 to 311311.
Healthy Chicago Babies is a website from
the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) that aims to fill unmet
maternal, child, and adolescent health needs for Chicago residents.
Specifically, the resources page is a comprehensive guide for
many services in the city, and can be utilized by health care
providers, public health and community health workers and consumers.
Journal of the American Medical Association
In
a new report published in the Journal of the
American Medical Association, CDC scientists used preliminary data from
the US Zika Pregnancy Registry (USZPR) to estimate
that 6% of completed pregnancies following Zika virus infection were
affected by one or more birth defects potentially related to Zika virus
infection during pregnancy. This is the first release of
preliminary findings based on data reported to the USZPR. Additional
key findings include the following:
- Among women infected with Zika in the first
trimester of pregnancy, 11% of their pregnancies were reported to
have birth defects.
- The proportion of pregnancies with birth defects
was similar for pregnant women who did or who did not experience
symptoms, about 6% in each group.
- Infants with microcephaly represented 4% of the
completed pregnancies, which is substantially higher than the
background rate of microcephaly in the United States (7 per 10,000
live births).
Illinois
Department of Public Health
Health
care associated infections (HAIs), including those caused by
antimicrobial resistant organisms, cause significant harm to patients,
are costly, and are preventable. The CDC has identified eliminating
HAIs as a “winnable battle,” in recognition of the fact that it is a
national health priority for which there are effective strategies for
prevention. The Illinois Action Plan to Prevent Health Care Associated
Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance is intended to serve as a guide
to coordinate efforts in Illinois to make a major impact on prevention
of HAIs across the state. The I Division of Patient Safety &
Quality, in partnership with the HAI and Antimicrobial Resistance (AR)
Prevention Advisory Council, began a strategic planning process in May
2015 to develop a five-year strategic plan to monitor and prevent HAIs
and combat antimicrobial resistance. The process was led by a Strategic
Planning Committee comprised of five IDPH staff and six members of the
Advisory Council. Additionally, two external consultants facilitated
the planning process. The Illinois Action Plan to Prevent Health Care
Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance is officially
online. READ MORE
WLS-TV
Governor
Bruce Rauner signed a bill into law Monday requiring Illinois schools
and daycares to test drinking water sources for lead. The law requires
school buildings built before Jan. 1, 1987 to complete water testing
before the end of 2017 and schools built between Jan. 2, 1987 and Jan.
1, 2000 must complete testing be the end of 2018. READ MORE
ABC News
After
hundreds of students missed school on the same day at a St. Charles,
Illinois, high school, the county health department is investigating
whether the mass illness is due to norovirus. At least 800 of the 2,500
students at St. Charles East High School were absent on Monday, Jan. 9,
after students reported symptoms consistent with norovirus infection,
St. Charles Community Unit School District spokesman Jim Blaney said at
a press conference. Student athletes first reported symptoms over the
weekend.
READ MORE
NPR
Five
years ago, on Charlie Ryan's second birthday, a big lump mysteriously
formed on the side of his abdomen. At the emergency room his parents
took him to, doctors suggested the lump was a hernia caused by some
unknown trauma, and referred the family to a surgeon. The surgeon told
them it was a benign tumor, and sent them home. Charlie already had a
host of medical issues. He'd been born with an abnormally large head
and other features of autism, including being nonverbal. Now this. READ MORE
News-Medical.net
Quality
of life of patients doing yoga improved, according to the conclusions
of “Results of a Pilot Yoga Intervention to Improve Pediatric Cancer
Patients' Quality of Life and Physical Activity and Parents'
Well-being." This study, published in the January 2017 issue of
"Rehabilitation Oncology," concluded: "Our findings
support the notion that yoga for pediatric cancer patients during
active treatment is feasible and potentially helpful in improving both
patients' and parents' well-being." READ MORE
Medical News
Today
Children
whose parents considered them to be 'overweight' tended to gain more
weight over the following decade compared with children whose parents
thought they were a 'normal' weight, according to analyses of data from
two nationally representative studies published in Psychological
Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
The findings indicate that children whose parents identified them as
being overweight perceived their own body size more negatively and were
more likely to attempt to lose weight, factors that partly accounted
for their weight gain. READ MORE
HealthDay News
Children
exposed to addictive drugs in the womb may be more likely to perform
poorly in school, Australian researchers report. In the study, these
exposed kids lagged behind their peers on grade-level tests of reading,
writing, math, spelling and grammar. By seventh grade, about 38 percent
failed to meet test standards in at least one of these areas. READ MORE
Chicago
Tribune
No
one wants to catch the flu, and the best line of defense is the
seasonal influenza vaccine. But producing an effective annual flu shot
relies on accurately predicting which flu strains are most likely to
infect the population in any given season. It requires the coordination
of multiple health centers around the globe as the virus travels from
region to region. Once epidemiologists settle on target flu strains,
vaccine production shifts into high gear; it takes approximately six
months to generate the more than 150 million injectible doses necessary
for the American population. READ MORE
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