A boy aged 3.5 years presented to the paediatric clinic of a metropolitan teaching hospital with a 14-month history of pica and behavioural problems.

Primary healthcare, with its established principles and multisectoral approach, is an ideal mechanism to provide support and care in response to health threats.

The COVID-19 pandemic, with its resulting city lockdowns, mass quarantines and social isolation worldwide, has uniquely highlighted the importance of mental health.

General practitioners can facilitate recovery-orientated, trauma-focused care, even when local services are limited.

General practitioners believe that principles underlying Medical Homes may support whole-person care, but aspects of the current Health Care Homes trial could impede this whole-person approach.

While paediatric cervical masses are most commonly benign and transient in nature, judicious consideration of red flag and congenital conditions is crucial.

In the absence of organic aetiology, childhood constipation is almost always functional and is often due to painful bowel movements that prompt the child to withhold stool.

Good quality e-mental health resources provide general practitioners with the opportunity to help patients improve their mental health in an efficient and illness-appropriate way.

An overview of prostate cancer patient support programs in Australia to help general practitioners direct patient referrals and optimise clinical care.

This study discusses how skin in patients with skin of colour is biologically, functionally and structurally different to that of patients with lightly pigmented skin.

Hepatitis C virus treatment uptake varies by geographic area in Australia. This study investigated treatment completion according to remoteness, as well as demographic and clinical characteristics.

Establishing a culturally safe assessment of cultural safety, determined by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, should be prioritised as an essential component of registrar assessment.

This study provides insights into the management of heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) prior to the release of the HMB clinical care standard.

The traumatic experiences associated with COVID-19 pose significant risks for the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the exacerbation of pre-existing PTSD.

Adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes can be ameliorated through antenatal and postnatal care that attends to the special needs of this group.