Editor's Message

The Joy of Conversation

Democrats, Republicans, liberal, conservative, red, blue, anti-vax, Medicare-for-all, impeachment, fake news, Bills vs. Patriots: all words that can elicit emotions and sometimes eliminate true conversations. Finding common ground and carrying on a rational conversation to look for gray areas se...

From the President's Desk

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

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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

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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

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) is the severe form of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS). Symptoms of PMDD are both physical and emotional caused by normal hormonal changes that begin typically seven to ten days before the start of your period. SYMPTOMS Common emotional symptoms of PMDD include...

HPV Protection

HPV, also known as the human papilloma virus, is a sexually transmitted virus that can cause different types of cancers including cervical, oral and anal cancer. There are certain virus strains strongly linked to cancer. Those strains are 16 and 18. Other strains are linked to anogenital warts an...