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  1. A ubiquitous dilemma in medical education continues to be whether and how to integrate research competencies into the predoctoral curriculum. Understanding research concepts is imbedded in the six core compete...

    Authors: des Anges Cruser, Sarah K Brown, Jessica R Ingram, Alan L Podawiltz, Bruce D Dubin, John S Colston and Robert J Bulik
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2010 4:4
  2. The pneumonias due to infection continue to be a meaningful threat to the health and viability of persons, particularly those in high risk groups: children, the aged and the debilitated. Noll and colleagues pr...

    Authors: Murray Goldstein
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2010 4:3
  3. The Multicenter Osteopathic Pneumonia Study in the Elderly (MOPSE) is a registered, double-blinded, randomized, controlled trial designed to assess the efficacy of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) as a...

    Authors: Donald R Noll, Brian F Degenhardt, Thomas F Morley, Francis X Blais, Kari A Hortos, Kendi Hensel, Jane C Johnson, David J Pasta and Scott T Stoll
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2010 4:2
  4. Without systematic exposure to biomedical research concepts or applications, osteopathic medical students may be generally under-prepared to efficiently consume and effectively apply research and evidence-base...

    Authors: des Anges Cruser, Bruce Dubin, Sarah K Brown, Lori L Bakken, John C Licciardone, Alan L Podawiltz and Robert J Bulik
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2009 3:10
  5. The use of manipulation has long been advocated in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but few randomized controlled clinical trials have measured the effect of manipulation on pulmo...

    Authors: Donald R Noll, Jane C Johnson, Robert W Baer and Eric J Snider
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2009 3:9
  6. Practitioners of manual medicine/manual therapy (MM/MT) who utilize techniques thought to have some impact upon and move the solid structures of the human head have been criticized for lack of evidence of cran...

    Authors: William T Crow, Hollis H King, Rita M Patterson and Vincent Giuliano
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2009 3:8
  7. Muscle functional magnetic resonance imaging (mfMRI) measures transverse relaxation time (T2), and allows for determination of the spatial pattern of muscle activation. The purposes of this pilot study were to...

    Authors: Brian C Clark, Stevan Walkowski, Robert R Conatser, David C Eland and John N Howell
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2009 3:7
  8. Insulin is an effective treatment for achieving tight glycemic control and improving clinical outcomes in patients with diabetes. While insulin therapy is required from the onset of diagnosis in type 1 disease...

    Authors: Ramachandra Rahul V Chemitiganti and Craig W Spellman
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2009 3:5
  9. Osteopathic manipulative medicine texts and educators advocate a range of approaches for physical assessment and treatment, but little is known about their use by osteopathic physicians in the United States.

    Authors: Gary Fryer, Christopher M Morse and Jane C Johnson
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2009 3:4
  10. Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care, which enters its third year of operation in 2009 under the umbrella of BioMed Central, continues to promote and advance open access publishing through universal online acces...

    Authors: John C Licciardone
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2009 3:2
  11. This review is intended to provide physicians with an overview of the benefits and risks associated with the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in the management of their patients with mild-t...

    Authors: A Mark Fendrick and Bruce P Greenberg
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2009 3:1
  12. Preventive care in the United States has been a priority, especially for children under 18 years of age. The objective of this analysis was to determine which predisposing, enabling, and need factors affect ac...

    Authors: Ka-Ming Lo and Kimberly G Fulda
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2008 2:12
  13. The availability of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has positioned primary care physicians to play an active role in ensuring its successful implementation. However, physicians must be aware of common k...

    Authors: Roberto Cardarelli and Kathryn M Cardarelli
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2008 2:10
  14. Patient care experiences represent opportunities for establishing theories, testable hypotheses, and data to assess the potential use of osteopathic manipulative treatment in various disease conditions. The re...

    Authors: John C Licciardone
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2008 2:9
  15. Obstructive apnea is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep: breathing is interrupted by a physical block to airflow despite effort. The purpose of this study was to test if osteopa...

    Authors: Yvan Vandenplas, Etienne Denayer, Thierry Vandenbossche, Luc Vermet, Bruno Hauser, Jean DeSchepper and Agnes Engelen
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2008 2:8
  16. The relationship between osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) and the autonomic nervous system has long been acknowledged, but is poorly understood. In an effort to define this relationship, cervical myofa...

    Authors: Charles E Henley, Douglas Ivins, Miriam Mills, Frances K Wen and Bruce A Benjamin
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2008 2:7
  17. Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) and ultrasound physical therapy (UPT) are commonly used for chronic low back pain. Although there is evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis that OMT genera...

    Authors: John C Licciardone, Hollis H King, Kendi L Hensel and Daniel G Williams
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2008 2:5
  18. The prevalence and impact of type 2 diabetes are reaching epidemic proportions in the United States. Data suggest that effective management can reduce the risk for both microvascular and macrovascular complica...

    Authors: Michael Valitutto
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2008 2:4
  19. In developing countries, primary health care facilities, such as adolescent health clinics, are frequently the first contact for an adolescent with a health professional for a myriad of health problems includi...

    Authors: Sushila Russell, Balakrishnan Subramanian and Paul Swamidhas Sudhakar Russell
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2008 2:3
  20. The risk of drug interactions with concurrent use of multiple medications is a clinically relevant issue. Many patients are unaware that over-the-counter (OTC) analgesics can cause potentially serious adverse ...

    Authors: A Mark Fendrick, Deborah E Pan and Grace E Johnson
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2008 2:2
  21. Anemia is an underrecognized but characteristic feature of chronic kidney disease (CKD), associated with significant cardiovascular morbidity, hospitalization, and mortality. Since their inception nearly two d...

    Authors: Rebecca J Schmidt and Cheryl L Dalton
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2007 1:14
  22. Avian influenza is an infection caused by the H5N1 virus. The infection is highly contagious among birds, and only a few known cases of human avian influenza have been documented. However, healthcare experts a...

    Authors: Raymond J Hruby and Keasha N Hoffman
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2007 1:10
  23. Basal-prandial insulin therapy is a physiologic approach to insulin delivery that utilizes multiple daily injections to cover both basal (ie, overnight fasting and between-meal) and prandial (ie, glucose excur...

    Authors: Steven Edelman, George Dailey, Thomas Flood, Louis Kuritzky and Susan Renda
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2007 1:9
  24. The growth and acceptance of osteopathic physicians as conventional medical practitioners in the United States has also raised questions about the distinctive aspects of osteopathic medicine. Although the use ...

    Authors: John C Licciardone
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2007 1:7
  25. Racial and ethnic health disparities inarguably exist in the United States. It is important to educate primary care clinicians regarding this topic because they have the ability to have an impact in the reduct...

    Authors: Roberto Cardarelli and Ana L Chiapa
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2007 1:5
  26. Primary care research has recently garnered greater attention at the national level. Yet, primary care (i.e., family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology) departments within a...

    Authors: Roberto Cardarelli, Margaret Seater and Elizabeth Palmarozzi
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2007 1:4
  27. Placebo treatments should be believable to ensure expectation of benefit, yet not provide a true treatment effect. One obstacle to conducting clinical trials with osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) is ch...

    Authors: Kimberly G Fulda, Turner Slicho and Scott T Stoll
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2007 1:3
  28. Osteopathic philosophy is consistent with an emphasis on primary care and suggests that osteopathic physicians may have distinctive ways of interacting with their patients.

    Authors: John C Licciardone
    Citation: Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2007 1:2