This is a summary update. To receive full legislative updates, you must be a member of MNAAP. The emails provide additional details about legislative issues that are not posted on our website and are for members only. The Legislature stumbled to a chaotic finish at midnight, May 23 at the constitutionally-mandated close of the session. […]
This is a summary only. To receive full legislative updates on a biweekly basis, you must be a member of MNAAP. The emails provide additional details about legislative issues that are not posted on our website and are for members only. With less than a week before the constitutionally mandated adjournment date of May 23, […]
By Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, MD, Director, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital and Sameer Gupta, MD, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital Case: A 15-year-old boy presented to the Emergency Department with his parents. He had been seen in an Urgent Care for vomiting and was […]
By Calla R. Brown, MD, Tom Scott, MD, and Iris W. Borowsky, MD, PhD Mental health conditions are prevalent in the pediatric population, and identification and treatment at an early age can lead to improved long-term outcomes. Primary care clinics have long been promoted by the Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision as the optimal […]
By Pamela Gonzalez, MD The AAP Committee on Substance Abuse (COSA) has officially changed its name to Committee on Substance Use and Prevention (COSUP). This is great news for many reasons, including the elimination of pejorative language (“abuse”). “The Committee on Substance Use and Prevention (COSUP) produces guidance for pediatricians, state and federal government, and […]
