The host immune system appears to have a fundamental role in almost all human disease.
The science behind the management of athletes with injury or illness has exploded over the past two decades.
As cancer shifts towards a chronic disease care model, general practitioners remain essential to the patient journey from first suspicion to survivorship.
Early detection of cancer requires us to maintain both knowledge of insidious warning signs and vigilance in seeking these out.
The rewards, frustrations and challenges of presentations of the upper limb are a microcosm of broader tensions in the healthcare system.
Lifestyle medicine has arisen as a relatively new (adjunct) discipline to assist conventional approaches to clinical care in dealing with lifestyle and environmental disease.
Lifestyle medicine adds to conventional medicine by closely examining environmental and distal determinants and individual behaviours that influence disease.
Apart from potentially decreasing the burden on emergency departments, incorporating broader-based wound care within a practice may enhance the GPs’ connectedness with their patients.
Over the past 10 years significant improvements in technology underlying ophthalmic diagnosis and treatment have led to marked improvements in visual outcomes for patients.
Developments in ophthalmic diagnosis and treatment have led to marked improvements in visual outcomes for patients in general practice.
Maintaining health and function into older age is a priority for patients, clinicians and policy-makers.
Maintaining health and function into older age is a priority for patients, clinicians and policy-makers. The Focus articles in this issue discuss the care of ageing patients in general practice.