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A shot of reality NPR Share     Recently, the British medical journal The Lancet formally retracted a deeply flawed study that suggested a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. The 1998 study has provided fuel for the anti-vaccine movement for years. In this On The Media segment produced by National Public Radio, The Lancet's editor Richard Horton describes how this debacle has forever changed the way the journal will deal with the scientific community and the media. More
NACHRI 2010 Annual Leadership Conference call for proposals NACHRI Share
NACHRI is excited to announce the 42nd annual call for proposals for the 2010 Annual Leadership Conference (formerly Annual Meeting) in Minneapolis on October 17 – 20. The NACHRI Council on Education is seeking proposals around this year's theme, "Breakaway: Transforming Leadership Models, Enterprising Technology Solutions and Evaluating Tough Options." More Creating Connections pre-conference workshops NACHRI Share
The NACHRI 2010 Creating Connections Conference, which takes place March 9 – 12 in San Diego, offers discipline-specific tracks in child advocacy, facilities design, financial management and planning, analytics, philanthropy, pediatric health informatics and technology, public relations and communications, and quality improvement. We’re also excited to offer two compelling pre-conference workshops:
Children's Hospitals This Week now available as an iPhone app NACHRI Share
NACHRI understands the need to deliver timely, relevant industry news to its members and other pediatric healthcare professionals. In partnering with MultiBriefs to create Children’s Hospitals This week, the association committed itself to delivering this news on a weekly basis. That partnership has now expanded to provide another convenient avenue to receive this information. Children’s Hospitals This Week is now part of the new MultiBriefs app, now available for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch in the App Store. Simply search "MultiBriefs" in the App Store and download the app free of charge. Once the MultiBriefs application is downloaded, you can add the NACHRI feed. News is streamed into your iPhone or iPod Touch each week. And just like the e-mail news brief you’ve become accustomed to, you may share articles with your colleagues via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. You can even bookmark certain articles as favorites to revisit at a later date. As always, feedback is appreciated and is important to the success of the app. Feel free to rate the application in the App Store. More
Older mothers' kids have higher autism risk, study finds CNN Share
A 10-year study examining 4.9 million births in the 1990s has found more evidence that there's a link between autism and the mother's age at conception. "The risk of having a child with full syndrome autism increases with maternal age," concluded researchers at the University of California, Davis, who examined data from all births in their state for the decade. The findings are published in the February issue of the journal Autism Research. More Sudden infant deaths may be tied to brain chemical The Washington Post Share
The brains of babies who die from sudden infant death syndrome appear to have low levels of a chemical that plays a crucial role in regulating breathing, heart rate and sleep, according to a new federally funded study. SIDS involves the unexplained death of an infant before his or her first birthday and claims more than 2,300 lives each year in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. More
Many overweight teens don't see the weight UPI Share
A study of 65,000 U.S. high school students found 3-in-10 overweight teens say they believe they are actually underweight or "about right," researchers say. Primary investigator Dr. Nicholas M. Edwards of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center said the study, performed at the University of Minnesota, used data in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's national Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System to compare each adolescent's body mass index to their own description of their weight. More When to worry if a child has too few words The New York Times Share
There is nothing simple about speech, and there is nothing simple about speech delay — starting with the challenge of diagnosing it. Every pediatrician knows the frustration of trying to quantify the speech and language skills of a screaming toddler. How many words can he say? Can she put two or more words together into a sentence? Can people besides you understand him when he talks? Questions like these, put to the parents, are the quick and somewhat crude yardsticks we often use. More
On health bill, G.O.P.'s road is a new map The New York Times Share
When Republicans take President Obama up on his invitation to hash out their differences over health care this month, they will carry with them a fairly well-developed set of ideas intended to make health insurance more widely available and affordable, by emphasizing tax incentives and state innovations, with no new federal mandates and only a modest expansion of the federal safety net. More The damage of the anti-vaccination movement Los Angeles Times Share
The doctor who launched the modern anti-vaccine movement acted "dishonestly and irresponsibly," Britain's General Medical Council has ruled. In 1998, Wakefield wrote and then vociferously hawked an article in the British medical journal Lancet linking autism to the MMR vaccine. After the council's decision, Lancet this week retracted the article. Among the facts that have come out of the inquiry into Wakefield's research is that two years before his paper appeared, lawyers seeking to sue vaccine makers paid Wakefield the equivalent of $700,000. After Wakefield's article appeared, vaccination levels plummeted in Britain and declined in the United States, and the diseases they prevented surged. Measles cases increased sevenfold in the U.S. More |
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