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Volume 12, Issue 6

June 1996

ISSN 1073-0397

EISSN 1556-3332

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News and Features
Health Briefs
Washington Report
Letter from the President
Election 1996
Research Update
Commentary
Perspective
Point of View
Second Opinions
Health Alert
Fellows in the News

News and Features

Dollars, attitudes affect use: Varivax: Decreasing chickenpox?

GERRY CLARK

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View articletitled, Dollars, attitudes affect use: Varivax: Decreasing chickenpox?

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Topics: attitude , chickenpox , chickenpox vaccine

Heat wave: Hot weather threatens young lives

ANNETTE SPENCE

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Topics: extreme heat , infrared rays , weather , heat illness , dizziness

Fostering care: Sad good-byes a necessary part of `filling a need'

ANNETTE SPENCE

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Topics: crying , emotions , employer , father , foster child

Task force focuses on pediatric education

HOLLY MULVEY

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Topics: advisory committees

Immunocompromised might face vaccine risks

CATHERINE WILFERT; NEAL HALSEY

Abstract

View articletitled, Immunocompromised might face vaccine risks

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Topics: immunocompromised host , vaccines

Academy offers first pediatric emergency medicine course

Abstract

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Topics: pediatric emergency medicine

Health Briefs

Fireworks safety

LUANN ZANZOLA

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Topics: emergency service, hospital , hand , holidays , italy , public health medicine

Help for hay fever

LUANN ZANZOLA

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Topics: hay fever

Monitoring cerebral palsy

LUANN ZANZOLA

Abstract

View articletitled, Monitoring cerebral palsy

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Topics: cerebral palsy

ADHD persistence

LUANN ZANZOLA

Abstract

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Topics: adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Relieving pain with sugar

LUANN ZANZOLA

Abstract

View articletitled, Relieving pain with sugar

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Topics: pain management , sugars , water, sterile , sucrose , bilirubin

Childhood wheezing

LUANN ZANZOLA

Abstract

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Topics: wheezing

Long-term NICU risks

LUANN ZANZOLA

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View articletitled, Long-term NICU risks

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Topics: neonatal intensive care units

Washington Report

THE 9TH ANNUAL AAP LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE: `I can make a difference!'

LEIGH ANN BLUESTEIN

Abstract

View articletitled, THE 9TH ANNUAL AAP LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE: `I can make a difference!'

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Topics: advocacy , government , internet , role playing disorder , role playing therapy

Congress approves HIV testing compromise

LEIGH ANN BLUESTEIN

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Topics: hiv testing

Advocacy alert: Health insurance reform

LEIGH ANN BLUESTEIN

Abstract

View articletitled, Advocacy alert: Health insurance reform

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Topics: advocacy , health insurance , pre-existing condition , specific autoantibodies seen in polymyositis or dermatomyositis (e.g., pm1, jo, me, etc)

Letter from the President

Academy creates anti-violence task force

Ed Keenan

Abstract

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Topics: advisory committees , violence , gunshot wounds

Election 1996

Zanga voted AAP vice president-elect

GERRY CLARK

Abstract

View articletitled, Zanga voted AAP vice president-elect

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Research Update

PROS seeks practitioners for study on referrals

AAP Department of Research

Abstract

View articletitled, PROS seeks practitioners for study on referrals

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Topics: managed care programs , office visits , practice-based research , telephone

Report notes population-to-provider ratios

AAP Division of Health Policy Research

Abstract

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Topics: catchment area (health) , child health , commuting , geographic area , health policy

Commentary

Pediatricians' care must center on family unit

EDWARD L. SCHOR

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Topics: community , family-centered care , personal satisfaction , public policy , therapeutic intervention

Perspective

Pushing children hard: an American tradition

RUSSELL BAKER

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Topics: perception

Point of View

Broadcasters owe children quality TV programming

C. EVERETT KOOP

Abstract

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Topics: educational programs , federal communications commission , knowledge acquisition , television

Second Opinions

Wishful-thinking paralysis

William Grimes

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Topics: paralysis

Emotions shouldn't prompt spanking policy

S. DuBose Ravenel

Abstract

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Topics: corporal punishment , emotions , forced expiratory technique

Leave the left wing

Rodney N. Kreider

Abstract

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Topics: african american , birth rate , child neglect , child welfare , crime

Preventing head molding

Nelson K. Ordway

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Topics: foot , head position , sleep , supine position

Poor imagery

Angela E. Lin

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Topics: imagery (psychotherapy)

Liberal naiveté

Larry O'Brien

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Topics: firearms , georgia (republic) , georgia (state) , gun safety , health care systems

The dark side

Habib Rathle

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Assistance needed

Cynthia Arends

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Topics: clothing , food , orphanages , travel , ukraine

Health Alert

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Topics: bicycling , brain injuries , consumer product safety , emergency service, hospital , protective helmet

Fellows in the News

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Topics: congenital abnormality , developmental biology , genetics , hospitals, pediatric , human genetics

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