November 2002 • Volume 8 • Number 11 -- Post-Assembly Edition

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Headlines

• West Nile is 'here to stay,' says Assembly speaker

• Delegates confront need for tort reform

• Town hall meeting explores specialty's future

• Growing pains? Or something else?
  Seminar highlights underdiagnosed musculoskeletal problems

• Assembly speaker gives straight talk on liability crisis

• Assembly speaker pushes HIPAA's positives

• AAFP Congress selects new leaders

• Academy bestows honors, awards

• Reality of bioterrorism: 'It's inevitable'

• Deadlines approach to apply for awards, grants

• Overcome health disparities with communication, respect

• Congress asks Board to reconsider position on J-1 visa waivers

• New online directory puts FP information at patients' fingertips

• San Diego highlights photo collage

• Task force weighs risk, benefit ratio of preventive interventions

• Not all hormone replacement therapy regimens the same

• AAFP representative speaks up at NIH meeting on HRT

• Critical care training crucial for rural professionals, says FP of the Year

• Delegates seek changes in state, federal, health plan policies

• Tar Wars is hot issue in Congress of Delegates

• AAFP affiliation brings new clinical information system to members

• Use simple techniques to measure vital signs of your practice

• Dizziness is a wonderful thing, lecturer concludes

• Assembly attendance exceeds 16,000; see you next year in New Orleans!

• Assembly presenters win awards for research, posters

• Contributors to Feed the Need

• Corporate contributors to Uzbekistan airlift

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This edition is funded in part by a grant from Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc.

FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department.
Copyright © 2002 by American Academy of Family Physicians.

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