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ICAAP
Registration
is closing after Friday, November 3, 2017 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 speakers, Kamala Gullapalli Cotts, MD;
Gina Jones, BSN, RN; Jessica Gold, MD, PhD; Rita Rossi- Foulkes, MD, MS;
and Parag Shah, MD, MPH, and session title, "Reach for the
Stars: Maximizing Health and Ability for Adolescents and Young Adults
with Chronic Childhood Conditions." Click here to learn more about this session and
speakers.
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
Open enrollment for 2018
coverage through the Marketplace opens November 1 and closes December 15.
Due to the shortened enrollment period, limited advertising, and no
renewal notices being sent to those covered, ICAAP is asking members to
share this information with patients to ensure Illinois children and
families are covered. Encourage patients to visit Get Covered Illinois and HealthCare.gov to learn about coverage options
available to them as well as access a number of helpful resources. Additionally, the Illinois Coalition for Health Access (ICHA)
provides assistance navigating the system and enrolling in the
Marketplace. Consumers can
The News-Gazette
and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
A student at the University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign is confirmed to have meningococcal meningitis. The
student is being treated at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana where she
was admitted October 10. There are no further updates on the student or
individuals who may be at risk, but roommates, friends and students living
on the same floor as the student are being contacted for evaluation.
In 2016-2017, a new state requirement went
into effect requiring students under the age of 22 and newly admitted to
college to show proof of at least one dose of meningococcal conjugate
vaccine on or after age 16. Exceptions for the vaccine must be approved
by a doctor and the university. The conjugate vaccines are preventative
vaccines that cover the four serogroups of the bacteria Neisseria
meningitis.
To read more on meningococcal meningitis,
preventative steps, and treatment, visit the CDC website.
Nonprofit Pediatric Weight Management Program Seeks
Partners for Pilot Program
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ProActive Kids
Foundation
ProActive Kids Foundation, a
501c3 nonprofit organization, has offered health programs for over 2,000
children with overweight/obesity in Chicagoland for the past six years.
The Foundation is currently building a program model to license their
results-oriented 8-week program in order to expand into more communities.
To assist in the development of this new program model, ProActive Kids
seeks a pilot partner to help test the new offering, and offer direct
input into the final redesign beginning fall of 2017.
Participating organizations will need to
provide staff or volunteers to execute the program (a fitness and
nutrition professional, and a mental health professional), as well as
market and recruit registrants. ProActive Kids will train your staff on
the course curriculum, data collection and reporting, and provide
handouts and equipment during the pilot phase.
If interested, please contact Nicki
Klinkhamer at ProActive Kids at 773-802-7005 or nicki.klinkhamer@proactivekids.org.
Two pilot positions are available and will be selected on a first come
first serve basis.
ABC News
This is no trick –- the babies
in the neonatal ICUs at Advocate Children’s Hospitals in Oak Lawn and
Park Ridge, Illinois, are their parents’ biggest treat this Halloween. To
celebrate the spooky holiday, the hospital's tiniest patients took part
in an epic costume contest to commemorate their very first Halloween. “We
have a lot of little preemies at Advocate Children’s Hospital that have
been fighting for one, two, even three months, and this brings a little
bit of normalcy into their parent’s life,” Deb Skopec, one of the
hospital’s neonatal nurses who organized the event, told ABC News in a
statement. READ
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Chicago Tribune
Six parents are scheduled to
testify at a legislative hearing Wednesday, Nov. 1, about Illinois'
failure to test their children for a disease that is deadly unless caught
and treated immediately. The department, headed since January 2015 by Dr.
Nirav Shah, has yet to begin screening Illinois newborns for Krabbe
disease even though a state law mandating the testing was approved 10
years ago. Shah is also to appear at the Springfield hearing. READ
MORE
American College
of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
Guidelines to help parents
introduce peanut-containing products to infants to prevent peanut
allergies aren't being discussed. New research presented at the American
College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific
Meeting shows pediatricians are not only not having the discussion,
they're not referring high-risk babies for testing prior to peanut
introduction. READ
MORE
CNN
We need more training to get a
driver's license than to become a parent, in our culture. Even though we
would benefit from parental education, some of us have never even held a
newborn before having one of our own. And we often rely on advice from
friends and family, much of it outdated or just plain wrong. When it
comes to baby sleep, bad advice can be dangerous. October is Safe Sleep
Awareness month, an opportunity to learn more about sudden unexpected
infant death and debunk the myths about what is sabotaging your sleep and
highlight habits that potentially risk your baby's safety. READ
MORE
HealthDay News
One in every 30 children in
the U.S. has high blood pressure. Now, new guidelines from the American
Academy of Pediatrics may help doctors screen children 3 years and older
for the condition. "We are seeing it at far younger ages than we
used to," said Dr. Thomas Dispenza, a cardiologist with Penn State
Children's Heart Group. "As obesity rates have risen, we have also
seen more complications from it." READ
MORE
University of
Virginia
Breastfeeding for at least two
months cuts a baby’s risk of sudden infant death syndrome almost in half,
a sweeping new international study has found. The study determined that
mothers do not need to breastfeed exclusively for their baby to get the
benefit, potentially good news for moms who can’t or choose not to rely
solely on breastfeeding. READ
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Medical Xpress
Babies born late preterm at 35
weeks are at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease in adult life than
those born at full term, according to research published in Experimental
Physiology. Researchers from Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Monash
University, Australia found that lambs born preterm were more likely to
show altered control of the heart by the part of our nervous system under
subconscious control (sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system). READ
MORE
News-Medical.net
Thousands of preterm babies
could be saved by waiting 60 seconds before clamping the umbilical cord
after birth instead of clamping it immediately - according to two
international studies coordinated by the University of Sydney's National
Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Center. Approved for
publishing in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
the review led by University of Sydney researchers, assessed morbidity
and mortality outcomes from 18 trials comparing delayed versus immediate
cord clamping in nearly 3,000 babies born before 37 weeks' gestation. READ
MORE
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