Topics: antibiotic resistance, bacterial , appropriate use , centers for disease control and prevention (u.s.) , education, medical, continuing , multi-antibiotic resistance

Got breast milk?
Buying human milk online from strangers or even sharing among friends puts babies at risk of disease

Allison Bond

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Topics: milk , milk, human , milk banks

CDC issues new rules for storing VFC vaccines

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Topics: vaccines

Too many drugs?
Research raises concerns about psychotropic medication overuse in foster children

Maude Standish

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Topics: foster care , foster child , psychotropic drugs

Task force recommends newborn hearing screening

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Topics: advisory committees , newborn hearing screening , united states preventive services task force

Update on status of licensure, recommendations for new vaccines

Larry K. Pickering, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: vaccines , licensure

Health Briefs

Knee injuries worse for females athletes

Carla Kemp

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Topics: athlete , knee injuries

Computer screening helps identify behavioral concerns

Carla Kemp

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Topics: computers , depressive disorders

Many kids with peanut allergy don’t have epinephrine accessible

Carla Kemp

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Topics: epinephrine , peanut hypersensitivity , autoinjector

Washington Report

AAP calls on political parties to make children top priority

Macon Morehouse

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Topics: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , advertising , candy , child health , childhood cancer

Key kudos

Macon Morehouse

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Topics: advocacy , statutes and laws

Letter from the President

AAP planning for future through Vision of Pediatrics 2020

Renée R. Jenkins, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: vision

Research Update

Violence-prevention strategies effective when used during well-child visits, study shows

from the AAP Department of Research

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Topics: violence prevention , well child visit

Commentary

Your vote in AAP election is critical to our patients, profession

Lewis R. First, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: cries pain scale , child health , obesity , casts, surgical , foster care

Focus on Subspecialties

Education needed to assess patients’ musculoskeletal complaints

William Hennrikus, M.D., FAAP; Andrew Gregory, M.D., FAAP; James Jarvis, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: internship and residency , musculoskeletal diseases , orthopedics , rheumatology , schools, medical

Is relationship between obesity, wheezing due to asthma?

Douglas N. Homnick, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP

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Topics: asthma , obesity , wheezing

Physical activity benefits minds, bodies of youths with disabilities

Nancy A. Murphy, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: adolescent , disability , disabled children , physical activity , sports

Pediatricians and the Law

Lessons learned from Tuskegee study guide future biomedical research

Jay P. Goldsmith, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: biomedical research , study guides , syphilis , institutional review board

Coding Corner

CPT offers 3 coding options for initial encounter with ill newborn

from the AAP Department of Health Care Finance and Quality Improvement

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Topics: medical coding , critical illness , glucose , tachypnea

FDA Update

Anti-epileptics may increase risk of suicidality

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Topics: feeling suicidal , anticonvulsants

Chapter Views and News

Friends of Children Fund helps chapters address child health

from the AAP Department of Community, Chapter and State Affairs

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Topics: child health , healthy people 2010 , mental health , obesity , oral health

For Your Information

Exhibit highlights at NCE in Boston

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Topics: appointments and schedules , employer , nephrology , self assessment

Call for international research nominations

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Topics: awards and prizes , child health , travel

Health IT conference

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Topics: health information technology

Smoke-Free Champions training

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Topics: smoke

APA fellowship program consultation

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Topics: accreditation , community pediatric service , cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, prednisone, and vincristine , environmental health , health services research