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ACPeds Board Meeting: All Members Invited to Attend
ACPeds will hold their twice yearly Board Meeting on
Friday, March 23rd & Saturday, March 24th in Atlanta, GA.
Of course, all Members are welcomed to attend and participate.
If you'd like to attend the Board meeting, please contact Ronni Ann in the College office at
(352) 376-1877 (or by email to
[email protected]) as soon as possible.
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POTUS Declares January Human Trafficking Prevention Month
At the end of 2017, President Trump
proclaimed
January 2018 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. "Instead of delivering people to better lives, traffickers unjustifiably profit from the labor and toil of their victims, who they force - through violence and intimidation - to work in brothels and factories, on farms and fishing vessels, in private homes, and in countless industries," said Trump.
Up to 300,000 Americans under age 18 are lured into the commercial sex trade, and there are 20.9 million victims of human trafficking globally every year, according to statistics published by the International Labor Organization. This number is expected to increase in the years to come.
Last month,
President Trump signed into law S. 1536, the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act and S. 1532, the No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act
, bills meant to keep those who commit trafficking offenses from operating commercial vehicles, improve anti-human trafficking coordination within federal agencies and across state and local governments, and improve efforts to recognize, prevent, and report human trafficking.
The best tools to
put to an end to human trafficking are strong, stable families and education.
Connected families and caring communities are the first and strongest protection from child trafficking. In addition, ensuring that law enforcement professionals, medical practitioners and educators receive education and training on identifying evidence of human trafficking in their communities can help prevent this exploitation and abuse.
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r more information
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Tired of MOC? ACPeds Board Member invites you to help make a change
Interested in encouraging your state medical society and others to support legislation against requiring MOC to practice medicine, but not sure where to start?
For more information on MOC alternatives
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Member Request: Bulk order forms for Good Pictures Bad Pictures
In the
June 2017 Newsletter
, ACPeds president Dr. Michelle Cretella wholeheartedly recommended
Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr.
and
Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today's Young Kids
to parents, grandparents, teachers and pediatricians alike, and as a year end gift, ACPeds provided the book
Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr.
to each ACPeds member.
Since then, we've had a number of members ask about bulk-ordering the books. We've reached out to the organization, Protect Young Minds, and they've provided us with that information.Click here for bulk pricing on Good Pictures Bad Pictures and click here for bulk pricing on Good Pictures Bad Pictures, Jr so you can pass along these resources to patients and loved ones.
According to Dr. Cretella,
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Open communication about the beauty and inviolability of our bodies, from the time children first ask questions, is key
to instilling moral character and protecting them from our sexually exploitative culture. In our tech-savvy age, with even
preschoolers at risk of exposure to our pornified culture
, the greatest gift we can give our children is an internal filter. In very positive, clear and simple language, and with beautiful illustrations, the Good Pictures Bad Pictures books, and other resources available from
www.ProtectYoungMinds.org/books
, help parents do just that.'
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June 2018 Bioethics Conference
Hear from leading experts, engage in charitable dialogue, and network with other professionals interested in Christian bioethics at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity's 25th annual summer conference, Bioethics & Being Human, June 21-23 in Deerfield, IL.
Reduced early bird rates (in honor of their 25th anniversary) are available through March 15. For more information visit:
https://cbhd.org/conf2018.
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Special Interest News, Articles and Studies
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New postings to the ACPeds Job Board
PENNS
YLVANIA (willing to relocate)
I am an Associate Member of ACPeds and a mature
Pennsylvania Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I am looking to share energies with a like-minded family physician, from whom I could rent office space and collaborate.
My orientation is traditionalist, pro-marriage, communitarian. I have extensive experienc
e with military families, human
sexuality, children, and spiritualit
y.
WYOMING
Established practice
looking for general Pediatrician to join and later take over a busy Pediatric practice with two locations in the county and 2 mid-level providers. Serving a rural community including a large native American population. Willing to consider long term or short term placement including the option to take over the practice eventually.
SOUTH GEORGIA AREA
ACPeds Fellow retiring in summer 2019,
seeking pediatrician with ACPeds values to serve small town south Georgia community. Flexible options from solo independent paper records to EHR salaried by the local hospital.
Peds call shared with 2 peds and several FPs, 6-7 weeks/year for nights and weekends; weekday involvement with hospitalized patients flexible due to FP residency; medical school to open in 2019 gives teaching opportunities.
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Say NO to 50 Shades Freed
50 Shades of Grey is not romantic entertainment. It is a story of sexual and domestic abuse.
"In real life, women in abusive relationships don't end up with a 'happily ever after'--they end up on the run from their abuser, at a domestic violence shelter or, sometimes, dead." -
National Center on Sexual Exploitation
When adults support and watch movies like this, they are sending the message to children that in some instances, sexual abuse and violence are OK.
So in addition to NOT watching this film, and telling your friends and family not to see it, you can become a powerful activist against this harmful material by
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Vaccine & Pharm Updates
Influenza
As this is turning out to be the heaviest flu season since the 2009 "swine flu" H1N1 influenza pandemic, ACPeds Board Member Dr. Scott Field has composed an
Urgent Influenza Update
for health professionals and parents.
While many children handle influenza fairly well even without early antiviral treatment, the disease and its complications can be deadly in children
. Early (within 48 hours of illness onset) use of antiviral medicines such as Tamiflu® can reduce the illness severity and may make complications less likely.
The recommendation, which comes in light of a substantial increase in mumps outbreaks since 2015, was last month in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Mumps cases in the last 2 years are the highest in a decade, with 6369 cases in 2016 and 5629 (preliminary) in 2017.
Opioids
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has
announced
new measures to safeguard children from serious risks of opioid ingredients contained in some prescription cough and cold products. According to FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, "Given the epidemic of opioid addiction, we're concerned about unnecessary exposure to opioids, especially in young children." As any exposure to opioid drugs can lead to future addiction, "it's become clear that the use of prescription, opioid-containing medicines to treat cough and cold in children comes with serious risks [such as slowed or difficult breathing, misuse, abuse, addiction, overdose, and death] that don't justify their use in this vulnerable population."
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UK Legal Case Critical to Triumph of Science over Transgender Politics
James Caspian is a psychotherapist and LGBT activist in the UK deeply concerned about childhood sex changes due to the increasing numbers of young adults he meets wishing to transition back to their biological sex.
He submitted a proposal to his university (Bath Spa University) to conduct critical research in this area but was denied because it is "politically incorrect and would harm the university's reputation." He is taking the University to court. Here is his story: http://ow.ly/tRC530i5rrV |
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February at a glance...
The month of February commemorates the following:
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National Review: Family breakdown affecting kid, teen mental health
Research
throughout the last several decades has shown a consistent pattern of rising anxiety, depression, suicide, and suicide attempts among American adolescents.
According to the
National Review
, "the most consequential social change of the past several decades is not the dawn of social media but changing family structure, and it turns out that
adolescent depression and suicide are closely linked with divorce and single parenting
. Teens who live with a single parent have twice the rate of suicide attempts as those who live with both parents. The same is true of other forms of distress and self-harm. To understand why kids are so anxious and depressed, we should look not just to their phones but to their homes."
How can we best help young people overcome their mental health woes?
Without a doubt,
research
makes one thing clear:
children living with their married, biological parents consistently have better physical, emotional, and academic well-being
. In addition, overexposure to screen time and media, and early high-risk behaviors, including sexual encounters and substance abuse, are powerful influences which appear to be harmful to the brain's development.
In light of this information, health professionals, lawmakers, educators and society as a whole should make every effort to
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support healthy marriages,
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encourage families to spend quality time together,
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help children reduce their exposure to media, and
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discourage risky behaviors like premarital sex and substance abuse.
For more information
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Gratitude toolkit for health professionals & their patients
According to research conducted by the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley:
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Gratefulness increases happiness and life satisfaction.
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Grateful people are more resilient to stress.
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Grateful people get along better with others.
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Grateful people are less depressed.
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Grateful people achieve more.
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Grateful people are more helpful and generous.
As a result of these findings, the Greater Good Science Center has developed a
Survival Kit for Health Care Organizations
designed to help health care organizations support the health of those under their care-staff and patients alike-by drawing on the practices and benefits of gratitude.
According to information provided in the survival kit,
cultivating a perspective of gratitude can improve sleep, tendency to exercise, cardiovascular health, adherence to medication, mood, optimism, and hope, and reduce substance abuse, fat intake, cortisol, blood pressure, suicidal thoughts, inflammation and even perceived stress and depression in health care providers.
Click here for more information
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
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Abortion laws, increasing STD rates and teen abstinence
According to Dr. Gail Bolan, director of the Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis have all increased for a third year in a row. In 2016, more than two million cases of these three infections were reported in the United States-the highest number ever."
While
some media outlets have twisted recent research
to give people the false idea that parental notification laws act as "barriers to care," in reality, these laws have been
shown
to not only protect both minors and their unborn children by reducing the incidence of abortion among minors but also to reduce both teen suicide rates and teen STD rates.
Contrary to the popular belief that teen abortion, teen sex and teen STDs are bound to happen,
according to the
CDC's new nationwide report
, the number of high school students who said they've ever had sex dropped from 47 percent in 2005 to 41 percent in 2015. This goes to show that teenagers are embracing abstinence and are not falling for the hype that everyone is having sex so they should, too.
As more and more
young people support saving sex for marriage
, parents, educators, health professionals and policy makers should support them. Abstinence is hands-down the best way to prevent teens from experiencing STDs, abortion, teen pregnancy and the countless other negative mental and physical health effects of teen sex.
For more information: ACPeds position statements
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Thank you to members Dr. Jane Hamner for help editing Parent Talk,
and Dr. Leah Willson for her help in editing the Newsletter.
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Patient handouts are available for download free of charge
on the
Handouts
page of the
Health Professionals
(and
Parents
) section of the ACPeds website. Available In t
he members' section of the website are
patient handouts
shared by other ACPeds practitioners
, some of which may be helpful to your own patients and practice. Contact the office to get the username and password for access to the
Member Hub
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link to the blog
is posted on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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