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MIAAP Annual Conference Spotlight Resident Speaker - MIAAP is pleased to offer one of our Annual Conference Sessions as a speaking opportunity for a resident in pediatrics or med pediatrics in Michigan. This session is 43 minutes of content and 10 minutes of Q/A. Apply Here
MIAAP Physician Content Creators - MIAAP is creating a social media platform aimed at providing short educational pieces for residents and med students in Michigan. Content Creators would be tasked with recording a 2-5 minute video on varying topics. MIAAP will edit and post the videos to social media platforms. Application deadline extended to 1/7/25 Apply Here
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Children’s games, murals coming to Covenant’s pediatric units thanks to Toy Foundation grant
The pediatric unit of Saginaw’s Covenant HealthCare was selected as a recipient of a $25,000 grant from The Toy Foundation, a nonprofit children’s charity, organizers said.
The grant will provide funding for games and murals accessible for children and teens at the Covenant Pediatric Unit and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
About 3,600 children annually receive medical care at both facilities operated by the Saginaw-based health care organization, officials said.
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First-of-its-kind blood test for head and neck cancer
Developed at the University of Michigan, MyHPVscore is a highly accurate blood test that can detect human papilloma virus-related head and neck cancer by measuring fragments of tumor DNA in a patient’s bloodstream.
The joint Otolaryngology and Pathology clinical lab began in July 2022 and, after validation of the testing procedures, began processing patients’ samples in October of this year.
The first patient samples came from Michigan, but the lab plans to offer national testing soon.
They have the capacity to run 400 samples per day, and plan to begin running about 50 per day in the next year as testing carefully ramps up.
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Nasty norovirus is back in full force with US cases of the stomach virus surging
The most recent numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show there were 91 outbreaks of norovirus reported during the week of Dec. 5, up from 69 outbreaks the last week of November.
Numbers from the past few years show a maximum of 65 outbreaks reported during that first week of December.
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Racial, ethnic disparities persist in deaths due to firearms, motor vehicle crashes among youths
A study co-authored by the AAP Department of Research found racial and ethnic disparities among the two leading causes of death among U.S. youth and calls for a multipronged approach to prevention and more granular research.
Authors examined 35,684 firearm and 40,735 motor vehicle crash (MVC) deaths among youths ages 0-19 from 2011-’21 using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Web-based Injury Statistics and Query Reporting System (WISQARS). Deaths were categorized by mechanism, intent, age group, sex, and race and ethnicity.
“An improved understanding of populations at high risk by mechanism and intent are critical for informing, developing, applying, and evaluating effective prevention strategies with an equitable approach,” the authors wrote.
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Winter darkness can affect kids’ moods, sleep, appetite
The sun goes down early in the winter, and the sky often is gray. All that darkness can lead to the winter blues or a more serious condition called seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
SAD typically surfaces in a person’s 20s but also can affect older children and teenagers.
Young people suffering from SAD may have sadness, anxiety, lack of energy, physical pain, social withdrawal and suicidal thoughts. They also may oversleep and overeat, particularly carbohydrates like bread, pasta and sugar.
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Pediatricians in the News | |
What happens when you give moms and babies $7,500? Flint is finding out
In January, Rx Kids launched in Flint, a city where 59% of those under 18 years old are living below poverty and this year marked a decade since a water supply switch exposed tens of thousands of individuals to lead contaminated drinking water.
Rx Kids has so far distributed about $4.7 million to more than 1,200 families in Flint, as of early December. The program, which does not have income requirements, has a goal to eliminate maternal infant poverty. Hanna said the uptake of Rx Kids in Flint suggests that's working. More than 90% of the babies born in Flint are part of the program, she said.
Recently, the Free Press spoke to Hanna about Rx Kids as the program nears the end of its inaugural year and raises funds to launch in other parts of the state in 2025. The interview was edited for clarity and length.
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Michigan seeing a rise of walking pneumonia cases
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says cases in children have risen in the last few months.
"I've had a few kids where it's come up they just can't do their day-to-day activities," said the director of Hurley Children's Clinic, Dr. Danielle Stabel. "That is why we call it walking pneumonia. They are just having a harder time making it through them."
Dr. Stabel says walking pneumonia normally impacts school-aged children or adults who tend to come in contact with kids. She adds that a big thing for parents to watch is for a cough that just won't go away.
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We want your opinion! Please complete this 5 minute survey on teen mental health and screen time.
The relationship between screen time and mental health remains unclear. This anonymous survey was created by medical students and faculty researchers at Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine and Hurley Medical Center in order to understand pediatric provider perspectives of the relationship between screen time and adolescent mental health following COVID-19’s onset. There is no financial benefit to us as researchers from this project, nor is there monetary compensation for taking part in this survey. Survey findings will shape future screen time advocacy efforts and guidance for pediatric providers around adolescent screen time. Please ensure your perspective is accounted for by completing this survey today!
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