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ICAAP
Registration
is open for 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,” to be held on Friday, November 17, 2017 at the Moraine Business and
Conference Center in Palos Hills, IL. The Conference Planning Committee is
pleased to announce our breakout session speaker, Robert Rada, DDS, MBA,
and session title, “Oral Health Considerations for the Child with
Medical Complexities."
Session description
This session will describe multiple oral
health challenges, including altered eruption patterns, caries management,
gingival health, medication effects on the oral cavity and oral hygiene
management for children with feeding tubes and tracheotomies. Described
will be a variety of techniques that dentists and dental hygienists may
employ to treat or prevent oral disease. In addition, non-dental providers
can play a significant role in early identification of potential oral
health problems and in oral care that can prevent these problems from ever
occurring.
Speaker
Dr. Robert Rada received his DDS in 1985,
from the University of Illinois Chicago. He then completed a general
practice residency at Loyola University. He currently is a clinical
professor in the Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at the
University of Illinois College of Dentistry teaching in the undergraduate
group practice clinics and director of the special care dentistry track. He
maintains a private practice in LaGrange, Illinois with a focus on special
needs patients of all ages.
For more 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 Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
designates this live activity for a maximum of 6 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
ICAAP members are on the front
lines advocating to maintain the Cook County sweetened beverage tax.
Despite its passage in November 2016, and implementation in August 2017,
pressure is mounting from a campaign launched by the soda and retail
industry to repeal the tax.
At a September news conference at Provident
Hospital, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle emphasized the
County’s obligations to its residents and the 200 million dollars a year
needed to treat disease associated with sugar consumption. In attendance
was Anoosh Moin, ICAAP member and Resident Physician of Pediatrics at John
H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County. Featured here on a WTTW segment, Moin states, “Fifty
percent of the patients in my clinic are obese… So when I tell them to lose
weight, I tell them to cut out soda.”
Dr. Alejandro Clavier, a member of ICAAP’s
Executive Committee, is featured in a Spanish television commercial where he reminds
viewers of the intense marketing by soda companies targeting children. The English commercial features Dr. Javette Orgain of
the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center. Dr. Orgain says, “The
soda tax will mean healthier kids, healthier families and healthier
communities. If we don’t protect our kids, who will?”
ICAAP member Dr. Clare Crosh of Advocate
Health Care and Mary Elsner, Director of Obesity Prevention Initiatives, are featured on an ABC 7 segment that spoke
against repeal of the sweetened beverage tax at a September 13, 2017 Cook
County Board Meeting in which the repeal ordinance was referred to the
Finance Committee for a hearing on October 10, 2017.
Illinois pediatricians may sign onto a letter in support of the tax no later
than Wednesday October 4 a noon. Contact Anna Carvlin, acarvlin@illinoisaap.com, or
312-733-1026, ext 214 if you have questions.
ICAAP
ICAAP is reconvening the COIPP
and hopes to gather a group of interested members to share information on
activity already going on in this area and discuss priorities for the
Chapter and the Committee in the future. If you are interested in
participating or would like more information, please contact Dru O'Rourke
at dorourke@illinoisaap.com.
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
The CDC has released new flu information, prevention action, and
recommendations for the 2017-2018 Flu Season (October-March). A section
of the release has been added below.
What’s new this flu season?
A few things are new this season:
- The
recommendation to not use the nasal spray flu vaccine
(LAIV) was renewed for the 2017-2018 season. Only injectable flu shots
are recommended for use again this season.
- Flu
vaccines have been updated to better match circulating viruses (the
influenza A(H1N1) component was updated).
- Pregnant
women may receive any licensed, recommended, and age-appropriate flu
vaccine.
- Two
new quadrivalent (four-component) flu vaccines have been licensed: one
inactivated influenza vaccine (“Afluria Quadrivalent” IIV) and one
recombinant influenza vaccine (“Flublok Qudrivalent” RIV).
- The
age recommendation for “Flulaval Quadrivalent” has been changed from 3
years old and older to 6 months and older to be consistent with
FDA-approved labeling.
- The
trivalent formulation of Afluria is recommended for people 5 years and
older (from 9 years and older) in order to match the Food and Drug
Administration package insert.
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Save the Date: Chicago Healthy Adolescents & Teens
Symposium
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Chicago Department of Public Health
CDPH is hosting the first annual
symposium on Tuesday, November 14 from 8am-12:30pm. Topics include best
practices in adolescent medicine and implementing youth-friendly services.
Additionally, there will be a long-acting reversible contraception (LARC)
training from 12:45-3:45pm. More information, including the location,
agenda, and speakers, as well as registration, will be available soon.
Modern Healthcare
The Chicago-area hospital market
is notoriously fragmented, competitive and dominated by not-for-profits.
The few for-profit players there, notably national hospital chains Quorum
Health and Tenet Healthcare Corp., have failed to gain share while their charitable
rivals bulk up and expand. Tenet and Quorum each accounted for roughly 2
percent of the market in 2015, according to an analysis by independent
Minneapolis-based consultant Allan Baumgarten. READ
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Medical Xpress
A team of University of
Manchester researchers have found that changes are urgently needed in how
parents are informed about newborn bloodspot screening to ensure they
understand it and its consequences for them and their baby. The research,
which will be launched at The University, suggests changes could be made
which would not only ensure parents are better informed, but which could be
more cost-effective than current practice. READ
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ScienceDaily
Doctors have long wondered why
children without allergies can still be afflicted with asthma-like coughing
and wheezing. In a new study, Cleveland Clinic researchers have identified
a protein that may be responsible. The study, published in the Journal
of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, found for the first time that TRPV1
— transient receptor potential vanilloid 1, a protein that plays a role in
airway disease through mucus production, cough reflex stimulation and
airway narrowing — may be responsible for asthma-like symptoms in children
even in the absence of allergies. READ
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EurekAlert!
Scientists have found another
reason for children to eat their green leafy vegetables. A study of 766
otherwise healthy adolescents showed that those who consumed the least
vitamin K1 — found in spinach, cabbage, iceberg lettuce and olive oil —
were at 3.3 times greater risk for an unhealthy enlargement of the major
pumping chamber of their heart, according to the study published in The Journal
of Nutrition. Vitamin K1, or phylloquinone, is the predominant form of
vitamin K in the U.S. diet. READ
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The Hill
The National Institutes of
Health is funding a new study on babies born with opioid withdrawal
syndrome, a side effect of the nation’s epidemic of prescription
painkillers and heroin. The number of newborns with this syndrome has
increased in recent years, yet there’s a lack of standard, evidence-based
treatments for providers, according to an NIH press release announcing the
new study. READ
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NPR
Teens and children struggling
with anxiety are often prescribed medication or therapy to treat their
symptoms. For many, either drugs or therapy is enough, but some young
people can't find respite from anxious thoughts. For them, a study suggests
that using both treatments at once can help. The study, published in the Journal
of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, analyzed data from a
large clinical trial of 488 people ages 7 to 17 diagnosed with anxiety
disorders. READ
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HealthDay News
Teens on Medicaid who have been
arrested at least once are more likely to seek costly emergency room care
and less apt to receive preventive primary care, a new study suggests. For
the study, researchers reviewed medical and criminal records of nearly 90,000
U.S. youths, aged 12 to 18, on Medicaid. The investigators found those
involved with the justice system also had more and longer gaps in Medicaid
coverage than peers without arrest records. READ
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