Key recommendations include age at initial screen, screening intervals, and discontinuation and the impact of the HPV vaccine.

Competitors have used performance-enhancing practices since ancient times. PAs should be aware of the signs of potential misuse.

Concerns about prescribing controlled substances and the potential for addiction should not prevent PAs from adequately managing chronic noncancer pain.

Clinicians should screen for mild cognitive impairment and initiate treatment with cholinesterase inhibitors as early as possible in the disease process.

Depression is under-diagnosed in primary care and other settings, but screening is as simple as asking the patient two brief questions.

The patient-centered medical home puts the patient's health management under the leadership of a primary care clinician. The concept has been adopted by major primary care associations, including the AAPA.

Media attention has increased awareness of autism; however, much of the information is misleading and/or confusing. PAs need to have reputable sources of information in order to help patients and their families.

New guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation (AF), developed collectively by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society, were published in 2006.

All clinicians need to know these potential risk factors for melanoma and which physical examination findings indicate possible malignant disease.

The optimal age to begin breast cancer screening with mammography is controversial. Over the past 20 years, federal agencies and professional organizations have released a variety of recommendations addressing the topic.