There is a great deal of interest in the potential symptomatic benefits of medicinal cannabis for developmental disorders.

Despite recent exponential growth in research on familial hypercholesterolaemia, there remains a general lack of public and health professional awareness about the disorder.

Although myeloproliferative neoplasms are rare illnesses, the general practitioner is well placed to identify suspicious features and initiate investigations and referral.

The enhanced Residential Medication Management Review program will address barriers and support general practitioners to make medication changes for older Australians.

To prevent heat-related disease, GPs need to work across prevention levels to mitigate climate change, recognise vulnerable patients, and work with these patients to plan management strategies.

Modest proportions of general practice registrars have training in, and in-practice experience of, long-acting reversible contraception insertion.

The primary care physician has an essential role in providing women with guidance, counselling and assessment regarding fertility concerns.

This article provides a framework for interpreting paired Ross River virus and Barmah Forest virus serology results in an environment where numerical antibody titres are not routinely provided.

There is a need to enhance aged care exposure for general practice registrars in ways that build on the competence of registrars and the trust in registrars by older patients and supervisors.

General practitioners are well positioned to take a comprehensive approach to the management of functional decline in older people, aided by a range of funded programs.

Young people experience higher rates of sexually transmissible infections and lower screening rates than the general population in Australia.

Latent tuberculosis, vitamin deficiency, parasitic infestation and hepatitis B are common among newly arrived refugees in Australia referred to a tertiary centre.

Beliefs about the usefulness of initiatives to reduce opioid prescribing in clinical practice and autonomy in prescribing may be important considerations in driving compliance.

This paper quantifies the burden of high psychological distress in primary carers of Australians with disability and identifies modifiable factors to improve mental healthcare in this population.

Prescribing drugs to reduce the risk of cancer is a new development in primary cancer prevention.