Menopause is an opportune time for clinicians to assess and promote health, and provide balanced information about treatment choices for symptomatic women.
General practitioners and practice nurses need to be provided with greater support and training to undertake the emotionally challenging role of mandated reporters of child abuse.
Managing cardiovascular risk factors is crucial for improving the overall survival of patients and the outcomes of future abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
Most men who present with non-specific androgen deficiency–like symptoms have functional gonadal axis suppression due to ill health.
Medicare Benefits Schedule rules regarding sleep study eligibility have recently changed and incorporate validated questionnaires of obstructive sleep apnoea risk and subjective sleepiness.
Diagnosis of insomnia is facilitated by the use of self-report measures to characterise the sleep disorder and elucidate comorbidities.
Risk-taking behaviours in adolescents are rarely detected in clinical practice without deliberate assessment within a youth-friendly framework.
Quarantine has been associated with increased rates of suicide, anger, acute stress disorder, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, with symptoms continuing even years after quarantine.
This study shows the importance of health screening for new arrival refugees, including screening for infectious diseases, nutritional and vitamin deficiencies, chronic disease and mental health.
An updated overview of Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, including epidemiology, risk factors for infection, spectrum of clinical disease, diagnosis and management.
Effective insomnia treatment requires a multidisciplinary team that is centred on the patient’s preference and personal goals.
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.
Syphilis is a great mimicker and should not be forgotten as a differential diagnosis of erythematous scaly rashes.
Diagnosis of PCOS in an Aboriginal primary care setting is being performed correctly and at a young age; however, subsequent screening of cardiometabolic risk and emotional wellbeing needs more work.