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Editor's Message
From the President's Desk
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Happy New Year and welcome to the 2020s! With the current rate of osteopathic students going into family medicine at 27 percent and the increase in the number of DO graduates in the next five years of around 12,000, we have the opportunity to welcome over 3,000 family medicine residents ...
Review Articles
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a prevalent disease that continues to affect more than one-tenth of the American population. Early detection is essential to slow the natural progression of CKD. This can be accomplished by urine and blood screening tests, which are analyzed for creatinine...
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The benefits of breastfeeding are well established. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that mothers breastfeed infants for at least one year, but most children are not breastfed that long because of many factors. Breastfeeding mothe...
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An Osteopathic Family Physician will encounter hypermobile patients. Hypermobility is a symptom of many of the subtypes of the Ehlers Danlos Syndromes (EDS). With the updated classification system (the 2017 International Classification of the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes) it is important for ...