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VA health care gets good marks, but disparities exist; Grants available for child health-related expenses; It's the final countdown to HFA inhaler transition

Editorial
Potions, powders, and patients: An Rx for healing

Letters
Special Article: Helping to ensure safer transitions in hospitals; Dermatology Digest: The lesion on this patient's tongue really hurts; Dermatology Digest: A serious condition or a benign masquerade?; When the Patient Asks: What's the best sun protection to use?

New Drug Information
Relistor; Treximet; Patanase

Dermatology Digest
What caused discolored skin on this man's legs?

A Day in the Life
Zachary Hartsell, MPAS, PA-C; Keith Kehoe, PA-C

CME Article
Osteoporosis in men: How to treat this condition in the atypical patient

Case Report
A worrisome, increasingly painful breast mass in an adolescent female

Surgical Review
Percutaneous coronary intervention or bypass surgery: Which to choose?

CME Article
Mild cognitive impairment: The transition to Alzheimer's disease

CME Posttest
Osteoporosis in men/Mild cognitive impairment

In Retrospect
Juxtaposition

What’s New in … Emergency Medicine
Compression-only CPR: Bystanders can still save lives

AAPA Special Article
Position paper: HIV prevention

CAT Clinic
Do thiazolidinediones increase the risk of cardiovascular events?

POEMs
Combined ultrasound and mammogram for high-risk women increases cancer yield; Accelerated care decreases length of stay in joint replacement surgery; Wait-and-see approach to AOM treatment decreases antibiotic use; High random glucose level is a weak predictor of diabetes; Hypertension treatment is effective even in patients older than 80 years; Carotid bruits are associated with acute MI and CV death
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Diagnostic Imaging Review
A rare disease of children appears in a young man

Case of the Month
Diagnostic challenges from your case files





   

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