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Centers for
Disease Control & Prevention
On
Tuesday, September 26, join the National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO)
and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for a webinar on Aging
& the Immune System: Rethinking Vaccines for Older Adults. The
speakers include Andrew Kroger, MD, MPH, Medical Officer, National
Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention; David Kim, MD, Deputy Associate Director for
Adult Immunizations, Immunization Services Division, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention; Albert C. Shaw, MD, PhD, Associate
Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Yale School of Medicine,
Yale University and Yale New Haven Hospital; Stefan Gravenstein, MD,
MPH, Professor of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School and Brown
School of Public Health, Brown University and Adjunct Professor of
Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western
Reserve University.
The webinar will offer one hour of free continuing education. Register here.
ICAAP
Early bird registration for
ICAAP/IAFP member and non-member physicians will close after September
30, 2017. Save $50 and register before the end of September!
ICAAP will host the 8th Annual ABC
(Autism, Behavior, Complex Medical Needs) Conference, “Lives in the
Balance: Caring for Children with Special Needs, Their Families, Their
Communities, and Ourselves in these Precarious Times,” on Friday,
November 17, 2017 at the Moraine Business and Conference Center in
Palos Hills, IL. For information about session descriptions, continuing
education designations, cost, and registration, see the conference brochure, visit http://illinoisaap.org/conferences/abc/, or
contact Elise Groenewegen at egroenewegen@illinoisaap.com.
The Chicago
Physicians for Social Responsibility
The Chicago Physicians for
Social Responsibility will host a conference on October 14, 2017, from
9am to 1pm, featuring top-notch speakers, meals and CME credit at no
cost to you! The speakers include: Jen Walling, Executive Director of
the Illinois Environmental Council; Elena Grossman, MPH, BRACE-Illinois
Project Manager, a CDC-funded climate change & health project; Drs.
Susan Buchanan, Peter Orris and Holly Rosenkranz will speak about how
to be a great physician/health care professional activist; and Todd
Sack, MD, national Physicians for Social Responsibility board member,
will discuss the green clinic movement. A light breakfast and full
lunch will be served. The conference will be held at UIC's Contemporary
Art Space-Gallery 400, 400 South Peoria Street, Chicago, IL 60607.
Register by clicking here. Contact info@chicagopsr.org
for more information.
Chicago
Tribune
The Illinois Children's
Healthcare Foundation (ILCHF) announced a $10 million initiative today
to expand its Children's Mental Health Initiative (CMHI) to four new
Illinois communities. CMHI funding allows communities to build systems
of care that prevent, identify and treat children's mental and
behavioral health problems. "Catching problems early can change
the trajectory of a child's life," explained Heather Alderman,
President of ILCHF. Half of adult serious psychological illness starts
by age 14, (1) yet only 55 percent of Illinois children from 2-17 years
old who need mental health counseling receive such care (2). READ MORE
Medical Xpress
What should doctors do when
parents request treatments for their children that are less effective
than those recommended? In the Journal of Medical Ethics,
leading experts explore the boundaries of parental choice and identify
thresholds of acceptable levels of harm and cost. There has been
research into the ethics of parental refusal of treatment, for example,
Jehovah's Witness parents who refuse a blood transfusion for their
children. In cases where the life of the child is at risk, it is widely
accepted that doctors should override parents' wishes. READ MORE
Medical Xpress
The nation's emergency
departments had low rates of complying with recommended HIV and
syphilis screening for at-risk adolescents, though larger hospitals
were more likely to provide such evidence-based care, according to a
study presented during the 2017 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
national conference. Nearly 1 million cases of pelvic inflammatory
disease (PID) are diagnosed each year, and 20 percent of those
diagnoses are for females younger than 21. READ MORE
NBC News
It’s Sage’s fifth birthday.
She’s wearing a pin that tells the world, and she’s carrying a sign,
too. “Today is my 5th B-day,” it reads. “Denied school because I don’t
have 39 vaccines.” Sage’s mom, Dene Shulze-Alva, has brought her to
Houston from Los Angeles to protest against vaccine laws. She’s refused
to vaccinate her children and is upset that means they soon will not be
able to enroll in any school in California. She’s among four dozen or
so people gathered outside on a hot late-summer morning, joining a hard
core of activists who believe that all vaccines are dangerous and have
become increasingly emboldened about denouncing the medical
establishment. READ MORE
Kaiser Health
News
Teenagers and young adults
with severe autism are spending weeks or even months in emergency rooms
and acute-care hospitals, sometimes sedated, restrained or confined to
mesh-tented beds, a Kaiser Health News investigation shows. These young
people — who may shout for hours, bang their heads on walls or lash out
violently at home — are taken to the hospital after community social
services and programs fall short and families call 911 for help,
according to more than two dozen interviews with parents, advocates and
physicians in states from Maine to California. READ MORE
HealthDay News
Kids who see gun violence in
movies are more likely to play with and fire a gun if they have access
to one, a new study finds. "We know from past research that kids
who see movie characters smoke cigarettes are more likely to smoke them
themselves, and kids who see movie characters drink alcohol are more
likely to drink alcohol themselves," said lead researcher Brad
Bushman.
READ MORE
ScienceDaily
A new study suggests that
while healthy preterm children have more medical sleep problems than
full-term children, they are more likely to fall asleep independently.
Results show that preterm children displayed more medical sleep
problems such as nocturnal movement, restlessness during the night and
breathing problems, compared with those born at full term. However, a
lower degree of behavioral sleep problems were present in preterm
children. READ MORE
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