A summary of key practice points based on the tenth edition Red Book and Medicare Benefits Schedule criteria is provided.
A response to feedback about the article ‘When less is more: Updates in active surveillance and watchful waiting in the management of prostate cancer’, published in the AJGP May 2024 issue.
Individuals with diabetes experience hearing loss at twice the rate of those without diabetes and might experience onset of hearing loss compared to their non-diabetic counterparts.
Better understanding of mental health needs among people affected by cancer would help integrate the work of clinicians, educators and researchers in providing timely and effective mental healthcare.
Art reflects society, providing snapshots frozen in time that provide meaning through suggestions of feelings, emotions and moods that surround life journeys.
Emphasising the importance of writing and roles of family physicians is a way to encourage residents to start writing.
As Australia continues to grow in population and the population ages, pre-emptive steps to maintain general practice as the core of the healthcare system need to be taken.
Social prescribing is gaining momentum in Australia as a solution to integrate health and social care in general practice.
Diabetes Australia and the Australian Diabetes Society are key advocates in the community and primary care to drive awareness and early diagnosis of youth living with type 2 diabetes.
Awareness of clinical indicators should prompt GPs to consider HIV testing in a wider range of scenarios without the burden of enquiring about sexual or other exposure risks.
This paper discusses the oral anticoagulants education program by the Quality Use of Medicines Alliance.
This paper provides a commentary on four popular diets highlighting potential considerations, advantages and disadvantages.
Conventionally prescribed for treatment of diabetes, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists are also increasingly used in weight management as the prevalence of obesity rises.
General practitioners are in an ideal place to assist in the stabilising of the health of those in custody and maintenance of the health of those released from prison.
A philosophical approach to managing mental illness is not a substitute for medication, but it is a tool that augments the overall management of a patient with a mental health illness.