The Pediatrician and Genetic Screening (Every Pediatrician a Geneticist)

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 757-764
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Genetic Screening ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Hereditary Disease ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

From time to time, the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued statements1-3 on the role of screening infants for certain types of hereditary disease. Although these statements remain valid in their broadest objective, some of the specific ways and means have altered with the passage of time. Moreover, society is now more concerned about genetic screening as a public endeavor with a potential not only for good but also for harm. There has been much debate about genetic screening-some of it informed, some of it emotional. In response to the growing concerns about genetic screening, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) published a comprehensive report on the topic.4 Its recommendations are published as an Appendix to this statement. The American Academy of Pediatrics has convened a Task Force to consider the specific implications of the NAS report and its relevance for pediatricians and their associates. The Task Force's most important recommendation is that a standing committee be established to provide expert, ongoing advice on this pervasive and complex subject. DEFINITIONS AND RATIONALE Screening in the medical context can be informally defined as an investigation initiated for reasons other than in response to a patient's problem or request for help. The formal definition3-7 considers screening as "the presumptive identification of unrecognized disease or defect by the application of tests, examinations or other procedures which can be applied rapidly. Screening tests sort out apparently well persons who probably have a disease from those who probably do not." The screening may be large-scale, and encompass a whole population (mass screening); or it may be selective and directed at a high-risk subgroup.

Aspirin Use and Reye Syndrome

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 79 (6) ◽  
pp. 1049-1050
Author(s):  
RALPH E. KAUFFMAN ◽  
ROBERT J. ROBERTS
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Environmental Toxins ◽  
Reye Syndrome ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Metabolic Defects ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Service Task

The search for causes of Reye syndrome has resulted in colorful, if not controversial, incrimination of numerous factors including influenza, varicella, environmental toxins, aflotoxin, inherited metabolic defects, and various medications. Attempts to associate salicylates with Reye syndrome date from the 1960s1-3; most of these reports lacked sufficient design, conduct, or controls to implicate or exclude aspirin as a risk factor. Since 1980, several epidemiologic studies4-6 renewed concern and controversy regarding the role of aspirin in Reye syndrome. As a result, a Public Health Service Task Force was formed which culminated in the Centers for Disease Control/National Academy of Sciences pilot study7 which was designed to address the problems and shortcomings identified in the previous efforts to examine the role of aspirin as a causal factor in Reye syndrome.

Materials for the history of the gospel-Baptist movement in Ukraine

1996 ◽  
pp. 4-15
Author(s):  
S. Golovaschenko ◽  
Petro Kosuha
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Evangelical Christian ◽  
First Results ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fruitful Cooperation ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The report is based on the first results of the study "The History of the Evangelical Christians-Baptists in Ukraine", carried out in 1994-1996 by the joint efforts of the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Odessa Theological Seminary of Evangelical Christian Baptists. A large-scale description and research of archival sources on the history of evangelical movements in our country gave the first experience of fruitful cooperation between secular and church researchers.

SECTION ON ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. ii-ii
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Asthmatic Child ◽  
Task Force ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Pediatric Allergy ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Allergy And Immunology ◽  
Children With Asthma

The Section on Allergy and Immunology was one of the first sections formed (1948) within the American Academy of Pediatrics. It now has almost 600 members. Its objective is to improve the care of children with asthma, allergies, and immunologic disorders. The Section aims to serve as a major informational and educational resource for the 34 000 members of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The Section sponsors a 2-day scientific program and symposium at each Anual Meeting of the Academy; and, for the past several years, it has also presented a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, as well as the annual "Synopsis Book." Other educational activities by the Section include publishing position papers (most recently, "Exercise and the Asthmatic Child"), assisting the National Asthma Education Task Force of the National Institutes of Health, and developing informational pamphlets for patients. In addition, the Section sponsors visiting professorship programs to medical schools which do not have a division of pediatric allergy and immunology. The membership of the Section on Allergy and Immunology consists of Fellows of the American Academy of Pediatrics who have been certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. Any and all qualified American Academy of Pediatrics Fellows are invited to apply for membership in the Section. If interested, please write to: DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF SECTIONS American Academy of Pediatrics 141 Northwest Point Blvd PO Box 927 Elk Grove Village, IL 60009-0927 The reviews contained in this 1988 to 1989 synopsis were written by 28 Fellows of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Allergy and Immunology and by 5 senior fellows in allergy and immunology who contributed reviews under the aegis of their mentors.

THE ROLE OF THE TASKS IN IMPLEMENTING COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES RESTRICTIONS (PPKM) HANDLING COVID-19 IN SELAAWI DISTRICT, GARUT REGENCY

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Akbar Lucky Firdaus ◽  
Dea Apsari Pramudana Putri ◽  
Arif Farhan Suroso
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Physical Distance ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Field Practice ◽  
Social Restriction ◽  
Practice Activity ◽  
Activity Restrictions

The purpose of this Field Practice Activity is to assess the efficiency of the COVID-19 task force's implementation in Selaawi District in dealing with COVID-19 and residents who have been proven positive for COVID-19. The Garut Regent's Decree establishes a Task Force for the Enforcement of Community Activity Restrictions in Selaawi District, Garut Regency. The technique that was used a Literature Review and the roadblocks that it faces, including measures to restrict the spread of the corona virus, which have not been maximized. People are progressively disobeying 3M's health recommendations, such as wearing masks, cleaning their hands with soap, and keeping a safe distance. The large-scale social restriction (PSBB) strategy has aided the implementation of physical distance in Indonesia since the start of the pandemic. The remedy to this problem is to enforce 3M (masks, distance, and hand washing) in a systematic manner, as well as passively 3T (testing, tracing, and treatment) and raise public awareness about the necessity of health procedures through the COVID-19 task force. In this method, the handling efforts can yield the best results and have been successful in lowering positive numbers and lowering deaths. Keywords: COVID-19, Emergency, Society, Implementation  

Are We Becoming a Two-Class Society Based on Neonatal Circumcision?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 1005-1005
Author(s):  
RICHARD E. NEIBERGER
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Perinatal Care ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Obstetrics And Gynecology ◽  
Medical Indication ◽  
Class Society ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Neonatal Circumcision

To the Editor.— In 1975, an Ad Hoc Task Force on Circumcision of the American Academy of Pediatrics reported that "there is no absolute medical indication for routine circumcision of the newborn."1 In 1983, both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology jointly published Guidelines to Perinatal Care in which routine neonatal circumcision was discouraged.2 Since 1983, many public tax-supported hospitals simply stopped performing neonatal circumcision. Circumcision is no longer an option at many major public hospitals.

ERRATA

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. 761-761
Keyword(s):  
Urinary Tract ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Urinary Tract Infections ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Expert Advice ◽  
Us Army ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Tenfold Increase ◽  
Army Hospitals ◽  
Tract Infections

In the American Academy of Pediatrics' "Report of the Task Force on Circumcision" (Pediatrics. 1989;84:388-391), on page 389, "Urinary Tract Infections," the second sentence should read: "Beginning in 1985, studies conducted at US Army hospitals involving more than 200 000 infant boys [not men] showed a greater than tenfold increase in urinary tract infections in uncircumcised compared with circumcised male infants;. . . ." In addition, the Task Force wishes to acknowledge the following for their provision of expert advice: David T. Mininberg, MD, Urology Section Liaison, Jerome O Klein, MD, and Edward A Mortimer, Jr, MD.

Directory of Overseas Service Opportunities for Pediatricians

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
Edgar O. Ledbetter
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Service Organization ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
International Child

The following directory contains more than 80 organizations that recruit US pediatricians for both long- and short-term service opportunities overseas. This list was compiled by the staff of the Task Force on International Child Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Facts concerning each program were obtained through correspondence and telephone interviews with organization representatives. We have tried to make the list as complete and current as possible. Anyone knowing of a service organization that has been omitted is encouraged to supply the necessary information to:

Return of Spontaneous Respiration in an Infant Who Fulfilled Current Criteria to Determine Brain Death

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 518-520
Author(s):  
Ken Okamoto ◽  
Tsuyoshi Sugimoto
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Brain Death ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Spontaneous Respiration ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Current Guidelines ◽  
Child's Brain

It is generally assumed that the child's brain is more resistant to insults leading to death. Current guidelines for brain death, therefore, avoid application of these standards to young children.1 The determination of brain death in children, however, has become increasingly important, and different sets of new guidelines for children have been recently published.1-4 Especially, the recommendations of a special task force, consisting of representatives from neurologic organizations and the American Academy of Pediatrics, were published in five major journals.4 Those primary distinctions were three separate longer observation periods depending on the child's age and the necessity for two corroborating electroencephalograms (EEGs) or one EEG with a corroborating cerebral radionucleotide angiogram.

Residency Training and Continuing Medical Education in School Health

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-496
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Graduate Medical Education ◽  
Continuing Medical Education ◽  
School Health ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
Graduate Medical ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics

Children between the ages of 5 and 18 spend a significant amount of their time in school. School health is a vital part of pediatric practice and an important concern for pediatric graduate medical education. There are few substantiated data, however, to suggest that residents entering pediatric practice or academic medicine are exposed to school health in a significant way. Many pediatricians, upon entering practice, find that they are consulted by school systems and parents whose children have problems related to school. Pediatricians find themselves unprepared for this new role and express the need for postgraduate education in school health.1-4 The American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Pediatric Education5 and the most recent report from the Pediatric Residency Review Committee have both underscored the appropriateness and importance of education in school health as an important part of the residency curriculum.6 The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that education in school health should be an important part of graduate medical education for pediatric residents and of continuing medical education for practicing pediatricians. Many advances in pediatrics that affect the well-being of the child relate directly to the school setting. Increased attention to federal legislation (Section 504 of PL 93-112, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; parts B and H of PL 102-119, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), health education including education about the prevention of drug and alcohol abuse and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, new approaches to screening and health services in the schools, immunization requirements, physical fitness, and knowledge about the school environment—all are important aspects of school health and areas in which many residents and/or pediatricians have had little or no training or experience.

The Role of the Pediatrician in Implementing the Americans With Disabilities Act: Subject Review

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-148
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Americans With Disabilities Act ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Reasonable Accommodation ◽  
Individuals With Disabilities ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Counseling Adolescents ◽  
Recreational Programs

In this statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics reaffirms the importance of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which guarantees people with disabilities certain rights to enable them to participate more fully in their communities. Pediatricians need to know about the ADA provisions to be able to educate and counsel their patients and patients' families appropriately. The ADA mandates changes to our environment, including reasonable accommodation to the needs of individuals with disabilities, which has application to schools, hospitals, physician offices, community businesses, and recreational programs. Pediatricians should be a resource to their community by providing information about the ADA and the special needs of their patients, assisting with devising reasonable accommodation, and counseling adolescents about their expanded opportunities under the ADA.

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