General practitioners are frontline workers for psychological medicine. This issue presents the latest updates on mental health topics relevant to general practice.
This article assists physicians through the work-up and management of dysphagia.
This article discusses the mental and physical health consequences of sleep disorders in shift workers and highlights the need to consider undiagnosed sleep disorders in shift workers.
Australians want to exercise more, but change can be challenging. Persistent, gentle, evidence-based support can help these resolutions become reality.
This article focuses on the assessment and management of sport-related concussion in general practice, including guidance for returning patients to sport.
This article describes an approach to the assessment and management of the common presentations of acute cervical spine pain.
This article aims to provide an overview of evidence-based assessment, management and referral options for insomnia in Australian general practice.
Management is aimed at investigating and managing the primary causes with a focus on sputum clearance, reduction in exacerbations and improvement of quality of life.
Strangulation has potential significant sequelae such as carotid dissection, hypoxic brain injury and laryngeal injury.
A female patient, aged 59 years, presents with an 8 mm slightly raised lump on the right lateral border of the tongue.
A low dietary energy intake relative to exercise energy demands may result in an array of medical issues.
Black salve is promoted as an effective, safe and natural skin cancer treatment, but such claims are not evidence-based, and serious complications have been reported.
The knowledge produced by Cochrane reviews informs the guidelines that shape our responses to clinical presentations in general practice.