Volume 36 Issue 2 | AAP News | American Academy of Pediatrics

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News and Features

2015 immunization schedules reflect minor changes

H. Cody Meissner, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: immunization schedule , vaccines

Ebola virus epidemic: global picture and impact on children

H. Dele Davies, M.D., FAAP; Carrie L. Byington, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: ebola virus , ebola virus disease , epidemics

Consumers now can ‘visit’ doctors via smartphones, computers

Joseph A. Kahn, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: cell phones , computers , telehealth

History Lessons
Honorary FAAP donates prized infant feeding artifacts to Academy

Trisha Korioth

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Topics: artifacts , infant feeding methods

Report calls for routine screening for behavioral, emotional disorders

Alyson Sulaski Wyckoff

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Topics: emotions , wegener granulomatosis , mental health , behavior assessment , cpt codes

AAP staff notes

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Topics: awards and prizes , child health , college students , customer service , dysautonomia, familial

AAP advocating for appropriate payment for new codes

Richard Lander, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: coding edits , cpt codes , healthcare payer , advocacy

AAP Policy

This month in Pediatrics

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Topics: clinical research , communicable diseases , marijuana , principles of law and justice , sugars

Health Briefs

Ibuprofen safer, as effective as morphine for child fractures

Carla Kemp

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Topics: fractures , ibuprofen , morphine , pain

Chest radiation for Wilms tumor increases risk of breast cancer

Carla Kemp

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Topics: breast cancer risk , chest , nephroblastoma , breast cancer

Congenital hearing loss prevalent among children with Down syndrome

Carla Kemp

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Topics: congenital deafness , down syndrome , hearing loss

Washington Report

Child health efforts advance, but continued advocacy needed

Devin Miller

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Topics: advocacy , child health , national children's study , united states national institutes of health , statutes and laws

Advocacy flashback: Pediatricians work to protect child nutrition programs

Devin Miller

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Topics: advocacy , child nutrition , hallucinogen persisting perception disorder

2015 Legislative Conference

Devin Miller

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Topics: advocacy , barack obama , child health policy

Letter from the President

We need to share our vision that children are valued by society

Sandra G. Hassink, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: vision , personal satisfaction

Pediatricians and the Law

Court ruling highlights risks for pediatric groups considering mergers

William M. McDonnell, M.D., J.D., FAAP; David A. Ettinger, J.D.

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Topics: health facility merger

Focus on Subspecialties

AAP clarifies recommendations on fluoride use in primary care

Melinda B. Clark, M.D., FAAP; Rebecca L. Slayton, D.D.S., Ph.D.

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Topics: fluorides

Marathon bombing, flu pandemic offer lessons on managing patient surge in pediatric ED

Amyna Husain, D.O., FAAP; Deanna L. Dahl-Grove, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: disasters , influenza , marathon running , pandemics , pediatric emergency medicine

ID Snapshot

Why there is a role for thimerosal in vaccines

H. Cody Meissner, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: thimerosal , vaccines

Focus on an Issue

Facebook privacy changes give marketers, strangers access to teens’ profiles

Megan A. Moreno, M.D., M.S.Ed., M.P.H., FAAP

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Topics: privacy

Commentary

Direct-to-consumer telehealth care threatens medical home

Bryan L. Burke, Jr., M.D., FAAP

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Topics: medical home , telehealth

Research Update

AAP survey tracks pediatricians’ use of EHRs from 2009-’12

AAP Department of Research

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Topics: electronic medical records

Chapter Views and News

AAP grant program marks 10 years of funding chapter projects

AAP Department of Community, Chapter and State Affairs

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Topics: agenda , brain , child at risk , child development , community

Coding Corner

Abuse of modifier 59 spurs addition of 4 new HCPCS modifiers

AAP Division of Health Care Finance

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Topics: healthcare common procedure coding system , modifiers , mountain sickness, chronic , myasthenic syndromes, congenital

FDA Update

Workshop focuses on accelerating approval of neonatal therapeutics

Food and Drug Administration Office of Pediatric Therapeutics; Office of Translational Sciences; Division of Pediatric & Maternal Health

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Topics: newborn

Correction

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Topics: alabama , budgets

For Your Information

ABP revises policies on initial certification exams

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Topics: acgme

Sepsis awareness awards

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Topics: awards and prizes , sepsis

Call for AAP annual meeting abstract submissions

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Topics: adoption , breast feeding , cardiac surgery procedures , cardiology , care of intensive care unit patient

Conversation-starting Resilience Project poster

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Topics: posters

Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Week

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Topics: congenital heart defects

Learn the signs. Act early.

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Topics: autistic disorder , developmental disabilities , elementary schools , centers for disease control and prevention (u.s.)

Shop AAP

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Topics: adolescent health services , daughter , love , twins

Online course on obesity prevention

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Topics: overweight and obesity prevention

Pediatric emergency assembly

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Topics: laboratory , new york city , pediatric emergency medicine , ultrasound, pediatric

Review, comment on AAP forum resolutions online

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Topics: feedback

Kudos to HealthyChildren.org

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Topics: awards and prizes , information resources , parenting behavior

Dental resources

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Topics: community , fluoride poisoning , fluorides , oral health , posters

For Your Benefit

Member stories
Pediatrician joins forces with AAP after hurricane destroys practice, home

AAP Department of Membership

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Topics: hurricanes , needles

Health IT Trends

AAP continues to promote better electronic health record functionality

Christoph U. Lehmann, M.D., FAAP

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Topics: electronic medical records , developmental screening , child health

Tech Tip

Tool monitors weight loss in breastfed newborns

AAP Division of Quality

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Topics: breast feeding , weight reduction

Health Alerts

Play yards

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Topics: color , dreams , mental recall , powder dose form , steel

Bean bag chairs

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Topics: baseball , basketball , calcium oxide , choking , consumer product safety

Animated toy monkey

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Topics: cercopithecidae , toys

Stress balls

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Topics: choking , rubber , eye , hair , maryland

Hobby planes

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Topics: hobbies

Hooded sweatshirts

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Topics: charcoal , consumer product safety , food , gossypium , hand rails

Hooded sweatshirts

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Topics: consumer product safety , food , hand rails , mental recall , neck

Parent Plus

Liquid nicotine used in e-cigarettes can kill children

Trisha Korioth

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Topics: electronic cigarettes , nicotine

Parents’ duty to make call on video games for kids

Mary McGrath

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Topics: video games

Fellows in the News

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Topics: child health , hospitals, pediatric , professors , immunization , awards and prizes

Seen & Heard

Seen and Heard

AAP Department of Public Affairs

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Topics: contraceptive methods , eyeglasses , implants , influenza , intrauterine devices

In Memoriam

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Topics: ohio

CME

Fetus, newborn topics focus of spring perinatal workshop in Scottsdale

Mary McGrath

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Topics: fetus , perinatal period , education, medical, continuing

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