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Volume 22, Issue 6

June 2003

ISSN 1073-0397

EISSN 1556-3332

In this Issue

News and Features
Health Briefs
Washington Report
Letter from the President
Focus on Subspecialties
Pediatricians and the Law
Coding Corner
AAP Abroad
Chapter Views and News
For Your Information
CME
Health Alerts
Fellows in the News
In Memoriam
Seen & Heard

News and Features

AAP Executive Director sets retirement course

Anne Hegland

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Topics: adolescent health services , Adolescent Medicine , advisory committees , advocacy , army

PCV supply returns to near-normal: Catch-up schedule issued

Keith R. Powell, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: vaccination , vaccines , invasive pneumococcal disease , vaccines, conjugate

Pay AAP dues by Nov. 30 to avoid losing benefits

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Topics: internship and residency , medical residencies , students, medical

This month in Pediatrics

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Topics: aids, pediatric , disasters , environmental health , fetus , hiv exposure

Guidelines for Perinatal Care erratum

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Topics: perinatal care

Experts advise prevention as best medicine against spread of disease: Threat of West Nile virus continues

Sue Wallace, R.N.

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Topics: west nile virus

Disaster Medical Assistance Teams on call for emergency situations: Pediatricians ready for action

Erin Verkler

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Topics: disaster medical assistance team , disasters

Ensuring healthy smiles: Pediatric practices should assess caries risk in young patients

Kevin J. Hale, D.D.S.,FAAPD

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Topics: dental caries

Guidance aims to help drug makers avoid risky practices

from the AAP Division of Health Care Finance and Practice

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Topics: pharmaceutical company , fraud

Pediatricians can help ease transition for children of divorced parents

Deborah Johnson

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Topics: advisory committees , divorce , father , marriage, life event , separation or divorce of parents

Making of the Red Book: Experts who team up to produce ‘bible’ of infectious diseases dedicate countless hours to ensure report is accurate, informative, up-to-date

Carla Kemp

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Topics: bible , communicable diseases

CMS expected to OK change for developmental screening code

from the AAP Committee on Coding and Nomenclature

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Topics: developmental screening , health care financing administration , mountain sickness, chronic , myasthenic syndromes, congenital

Members asked to consider making gift to commemorate AAP 75th anniversary

from AAP Development

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Topics: child health , fund raising , nonprofit organizations , philanthropy , newborn resuscitation

History Center features Dr. Robert J. Haggerty, AAP past president

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Topics: advisory committees , awards and prizes , child health services , community pediatric service , consultants

Dr. Berkowitz to assume AAP presidency in 2004

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Topics: health services accessibility , professors , reimbursement mechanisms , workforce

CDC monkeypox recommendations available

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Topics: monkeypox

Health Briefs

Hospitalized kids watch inappropriate TV programs

Carla Kemp

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Topics: television

Source of guns used in school violence

Carla Kemp

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Topics: firearms , school violence

Obese kids have poor quality of life

Carla Kemp

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Topics: obesity , quality of life

Washington Report

Medicaid reform update

Marjorie Tharp; Taryn Houghton

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Topics: medicaid

Academy opposes Bush administration proposal to dismantle Head Start

Marjorie Tharp; Taryn Houghton

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Topics: head start program

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act faces major overhaul

Marjorie Tharp; Taryn Houghton

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Topics: individuals with disabilities education act

Loan repayment programs for research available

Marjorie Tharp; Taryn Houghton

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Topics: health disparity , united states national institutes of health , knowledge acquisition , debt , government

Congressional recess

Marjorie Tharp; Taryn Houghton

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Topics: congress (u.s. legislature)

Letter from the President

Academy voices members’ concerns about proctored exams to ABP

E. Stephen Edwards, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: voice

Focus on Subspecialties

Eye-opener: Orthoptists assess visual function, evaluate neuromuscular anomalies

Kyle Arnoldi, C.O.

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Topics: eye , vision , orthoptics , pediatric ophthalmology

Novel therapies for allergic disease include leukotriene modifiers

Mitchell Lester, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: hypersensitivity , leukotriene modifiers , immunoglobulin e , omalizumab

Pediatricians and the Law

Reduce risk of malpractice suits by forging patient relationships

Robert A. Mendelson, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: malpractice , risk reduction

Coding Corner

Coding Corner - June 2003

from the AAP Division of Health Care Finance and Practice

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Topics: medical coding , cpt codes

AAP Abroad

Military training helps doctors treat kids in post-war settings: Caring in the aftermath

Lori O’Keefe

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Topics: military personnel , wars

Chapter Views and News

Chapters reaching across U.S. borders

from the AAP Department of Chapter and State Affairs

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Topics: guatemala , internship and residency , nicaragua , vietnam , distal intestinal obstruction syndrome

For Your Information

For Your Information - June 2003

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Topics: autistic disorder , breast feeding , delivery of health care , education, medical, continuing , faculty development

CME

EMERGENCY MEDICINE LEADERSHIP – ALBUQUERQUE

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Topics: emergency medicine

Health Alerts

Health Alerts - June 2003

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Topics: toys , cribs

Fellows in the News

Fellows in the News - June 2003

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Topics: awards and prizes , professors , schools, medical , hospitals, pediatric , child health

In Memoriam

In Memoriam - June 2003

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Topics: chronic b-cell leukemias , chronic lymphocytic leukemia , lymphoma , lymphoma, non-hodgkin , motor vehicle accident death

Seen & Heard

Seen & Heard - June 2003

from AAP Public Relations

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Topics: aids, pediatric , car seats , childhood obesity , hiv testing , medicaid

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