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Task force issues draft osteoporosis screening recommendations, calls for public comment

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MKSAP Quiz: Managing COPD

MKSAP Quiz: Managing COPD

PSA screening halves cancer mortality

PSA screening halves cancer mortality

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Cancer diagnoses often given quickly, impersonally

CMS delays enforcement deadline for new enrollment system

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URAC seeks comments on new Patient Centered Health Care Home toolkits

CMS delays enforcement deadline for new enrollment system

College Master awarded National Research for Women and Families honor

College Master awarded National Research for Women and Families honor

Omega C. Logan Silva, MACP, the second African-American woman to earn an ACP Mastership, has been awarded the Foremother Award of the National Research Center for Women & Families. Dr. Silva was the first woman president of Howard University Medical Alumni Association, the second African-American president of the American Medicine Women's Association, the founder of the International Women in Medicine, and winner of the Bertha Van Hoosen Award. Dr. Silva is well known for her long-time advocacy efforts for universal health care and ongoing support of women in medicine.

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