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New ACOFP Resources for CME, Education and Patients

Over the past year, the ACOFP has created several new resources to help educate osteopathic family physicians, residents and students, as well as patients. ...

Original Research

14-19
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Patient Knowledge and Understanding of Home Health Services Criteria

This study was conducted to gain a better understanding of patients’ understanding of homebound criteria and house call eligibility....

Review Articles

20-22
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Pseudogout: Uncommon and Under-Recognized

Pseudogout or calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease is an uncommon and often under-recognized resentation in primary care. Patients may initially develop asymptomatic crystal deposition, but these changes can evolve to synovitis, arthritis, and cartilage calcification. An initi...
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Preventing Cancer with Two Injections, A Clinical Review of the HPV Vaccination

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) has become a major public health concern in the United States. HPV has high subclinical infection rates and is a major cause of preventable cancers (cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, penile, and oropharyngeal).1,2 Despite availability of an effective vaccine ag...

Clinical Images

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A New Eyelid Growth

A 69-year-old Caucasian female presents to the eye clinic with a complaint of a new itchy growth on her left lower eyelid. Over the previous two weeks the irritation caused by the lesion has become increasingly bothersome. The lesion appears as a pink growth within the nasal canthus. She has also be...

Patient Education Handout(s)

PMDD

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HPV Protection

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