The AAP took a neutral stance on male circumcision when it last considered the practice in 1999.
The AAP also supports teaching children how to swim, whether or not they have a pool at home.
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In fact, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), nearly one third of teenagers consume energy drinks.
To make sure statins aren't used indiscriminately, the AAP issued guidelines for doctors prescribing the medications for children.
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According to the AAP, 115 American children died of influenza-related disease in the 12 months ending in August.
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Rival Advance Auto Parts (AAP) reported third quarter earnings that were well ahead of analyst estimates last month.
The AAP recommends exclusive breast milk for the first six months of life.
Staff at the AAP sanctuary care for the animals until they die.
However, these benefits are not sufficient for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to recommend that all infant boys be circumcised.
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In April, the AAP wrote another letter asking CBS to remove an NVIC advertisement from the JumboTron in Times Square in Manhattan.
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The AAP shrank the pool of infants deemed at risk for RSV and lowered the maximum time for treatment from five months to three.
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The AAP correctly recognizes that a home swimming pool can be a genuine value to a family, provided that parents and children follow proper precautions.
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For example, AAP has advocated no tackle football before eighth grade, and a ban on body-checking in hockey for kids younger than 15.
The AAP and many other child health organizations have worked hard to protect children and their families from unfounded and unscientific misinformation regarding vaccine safety.
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Ideally, AAP's target level for LDL cholesterol is 130 or below.
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The NVIC and the AAP have a long history of conflict.
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The similarity in injury patterns, and increasing rates of injuries, suggest that the AAP should perhaps consider making a similar statement regarding pediatric usage of inflatable bouncers.
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Port Hedland Deputy Mayor George Daccache told the Australian Associated Press (AAP) news agency that the winds and rain had been "relentless for the past two or three days".
In 2008, the AAP revised its guidelines, citing little evidence that such delays prevent the development of food allergies, but it didn't say when and how to introduce such foods.
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"The AAP recognizes that monitors may be helpful to allow rapid recognition of apnea, airway obstruction, respiratory failure, interruption of supplemental oxygen supply, or failure of mechanical respiratory support, " the group states.
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"These infant deaths are preventable accidents that remain a silent epidemic in our country, " says Michael Goodstein, a member of the AAP's task force on SIDS and a neonatologist at York Hospital in York, Pa.
Dena Davis, a law and ethics professor at Cleveland State University and the legal consultant on the AAP's policy review, says that she personally favours considering a symbolic cut, because of the potential for harm reduction.
In 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a statement recommending against any home or recreational use of trampolines, suggesting that trampolines only be used as part of a structured training program with strict safety measures.
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In the U.S., most moms start off breast-feeding, but only 40% are still doing so at six months and just 20% make it to one year, which is the milestone that the AAP recommends at a minimum.
The CPSC and the AAP have urged parents not to use the puffy bumpers the kind that a baby's face could sink into but both have stopped short of advising against any bumpers at all, as some consumer groups urge.
Puffy bumpers, pillows and blankets, low-hanging mobiles and a menagerie of stuffed animals all pose suffocation hazards to babies less than 12 months old, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
However, as more evidence mounts on the long-term effect of concussions, there may well be more pressure from some in the medical community, AAP or not, to take children out of football, ice hockey and other head-shot-risky sports entirely.
"There should be nothing in the crib but the baby, " says Rachel Moon, who heads the AAP's task force on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), officially any death of a baby under age 1 that remains unexplained after a thorough investigation.
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