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Volume 14, Issue 11

November 1998

ISSN 1073-0397

EISSN 1556-3332

In this Issue

News and Features
Health Briefs
Washington Report
Letter from the President
Research Update
Second Opinions
Pediatricians and the Law
Policies in Pediatrics
For Your Benefit
Health Alerts
Fellows in the News
Corrections

MANAGED CARE Q&A

Jack Swanson

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Topics: managed care programs , pentachlorophenol , phencyclidine , pneumonia, pneumocystis carinii , physical therapy

SEEN & HEARD

AAP Division of Public Relations

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Topics: child health , communicable diseases , pneumococcal vaccine , substance abuse , television

AAP 1997 - '98 ANNUAL REPORT

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Topics: quality of care , united nations

News and Features

Missouri nurses turn AAP gun injury prevention message into action

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Topics: injury prevention , nurses, emergency

Parents' lesson: Be a `philanthropist of time': No paths too tough when helping children, new president vows

Laura J. Rongé

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View articletitled, Parents' lesson: Be a `philanthropist of time': No paths too tough when helping children, new president vows

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Topics: hearing aids , hearing impaired persons , professional counselor , reward , summer camp

Healthy Tomorrows funds 10 new community health projects

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Topics: community health services

FDA issues warning on electrode lead wires and patient cables

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Topics: electrode lead wires , united states food and drug administration , bone wires , burns , medical devices

AMA resumes collaboration with Academy on E/M comments to HCFA

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Topics: health care financing administration , resume

OIG model compliance plan offers seven essential elements

Maryellen Maley

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Topics: civil rights , clinical laboratory improvement amendments , government regulations , health care financing administration , inner ear

Delegates cast votes on 74 resolutions: Chapter Forum shows breadth depth of pediatrician concerns

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View articletitled, Delegates cast votes on 74 resolutions: Chapter Forum shows breadth depth of pediatrician concerns

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Topics: casts, surgical

Chapter Forum: Where members, leaders confer on policy, direction

Dave Tayloe, Jr.

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Course focuses on vaccines, preventive services for teens

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Topics: preventive health services , vaccines , communicable diseases

Health Briefs

Are you a high prescriber?

Luann Zanzola

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Topics: antibiotic resistance, bacterial , upper respiratory infections

Time to rethink ATVs for children

Luann Zanzola

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Topics: all-terrain vehicles , wounds and injuries

Long-term outlook after seizures

Luann Zanzola

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Topics: seizures , febrile seizures

Teen birth rate declines in '90s

Luann Zanzola

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Topics: birth rate , condoms , contraceptive agents , centers for disease control and prevention (u.s.) , coitus

Asthma hits parents hard

Luann Zanzola

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Topics: asthma

Washington Report

Federal agencies to search for uninsured

Sherry Trust Llewellyn

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Topics: agriculture , government , health policy , housing , united states department of agriculture

AAP endorses Right to Breastfeed Act

Sherry Trust Llewellyn

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Topics: breast feeding

Save the date

Sherry Trust Llewellyn

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Topics: advocacy

Media and children's issues

Sherry Trust Llewellyn

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Topics: child advocacy , community , radio communications , television

Final effort for managed care bill

Sherry Trust Llewellyn

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Topics: managed care programs

Letter from the President

Pediatricians must transform rhetoric into action on insuring children

Joel J. Alpert

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Topics: health insurance , medical insurance coverage , physicians, family , universal health insurance

Research Update

Adult immunity still a concern: Most Fellows offer varicella vaccine; rates vary by location, payment system

AAP Department of Research and Practice

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Topics: chickenpox vaccine , immunity

Second Opinions

Access over insurance

Donald F. Johnson

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Topics: insurance , primary care physicians , health insurance , capitation payment system , money

PORTRAIT: Can snow be far behind?

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Topics: snow - weather

Lousy limerick

Howard Fischer

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Topics: lice , lice infestation

Pediatricians and the Law

Expert witnesses must be held accountable for testimony

Jeffrey Berman

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Topics: expert testimony

Policies in Pediatrics

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Topics: communicable diseases , disabled children , dyslexia , learning disabilities , palivizumab

For Your Benefit

FOR YOUR BENEFIT

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Topics: afghanistan , child health , developing countries , directories , medical missions

Health Alerts

HEALTH ALERTS

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Topics: bone screws , choking , consumer product safety , pharynx , stomach

Fellows in the News

FELLOWS IN THE NEWS

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Topics: emergency medicine , hospitals, pediatric , ohio , pediatric emergency medicine , professors

Corrections

ICD-9-CM updated for 1999, but some changes effective since Oct. 1

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Topics: international classification of diseases

Snap decisions could harm young athletes with spinal injury

Laura J. Rongé

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Topics: athlete , spinal injuries

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