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From the AAPA
Duke study: PAs fill health care gap

Editorial
What is a physician assistant? Looking for the right answer

Letters
Examining the most popular weight loss diets: How effective are they?

New Drug Information
Xyntha

Dermatology Digest
Painless growths felt like stones in her shoes

A Day in the Life
Alan Howard, PA-C

CME Article
Can you recognize a patient at risk for a hypercoagulable state?

Case Report
Measuring the optic nerve sheath diameter in a head-injured man

Review Article
Increasing obesity in children and adolescents: An alarming epidemic

CME Article
Patellofemoral syndrome: How to perform a basic knee evaluation

CME Posttest
Hypercoagulable states; Patellofemoral syndrome

Sounding Board
Lifestyle changes do make a difference

POEMs
Caregiver use of pictograms reduces dosing errors and improves adherence; Prognosis of bicuspid aortic valve depends on age and severity of valve dysfunction; Lactobacilli after antibiotic treatment is effective for BV; Risk of cardiovascular event in COPD is increased with inhaled anticholinergic use; Alexander technique reduces low back pain disability; CT colonography detects 90% of large polyps under optimal conditions
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Diagnostic Imaging Review
Pleural disease manifests years after asbestos exposure

What’s New in … Dermatology
Treating vitiligo and psoriasis with the excimer laser

Humane Medicine
The art of medicine: Using your heart and your head

Case of the Month
Diagnostic challenges from your case files

In Memoriam: Paul Stephan Robinson
The PA community lost a dear friend and colleague when AAPA president elect Paul Robinson tragically passed away on November 12 at the age of 55. To read more, click here.

CME Supplements to JAAPA and CME Webcasts
Click here for pdfs of recent monographs and links to Webcasts offering AAPA Category I CME credit.

17th Annual Clinical and Professional Poster Session
Click here to view abstracts from the poster session at the 2008 AAPA annual conference in San Antonio. These abstracts highlight the unique research accomplished by PAs, PA faculty, and PA students over the past year.

Writing for Publication: Ten Steps to Success
Click here to view this May 2007 Webcast from the editor of JAAPA.