Lifestyle medicine might offer an adjunct approach to better managing chronic disease.
An update on the various treatment methods available today to tackle pilonidal disease.
Factors to be considered when assessing the burden of treatment and a patient’s capacity to cope with this workload are outlined.
Healthcare professionals would generally like to increase their electronic correspondence, yet most are currently faxing or posting their correspondence.
Patient-centred practice is needed to build a treatment plan that works for individual patients.
This study shows the importance of sharing and learning from policy differences.
Australia’s outdated definition of obesity likely hinders management and contributes to the observed gap between clinical guidelines and current practice.
This article explores the themes of patient choice, safety and optimising success in GP-led withdrawal. The four-step framework outlines how to best support patients to undertake a withdrawal.
Health coaching is an integral part of lifestyle medicine that can be used to facilitate behaviour change in key lifestyle areas.
It is important for prescribers to regularly ask patients about their medication adherence and to discuss strategies for promoting this.
Living with haemochromatosis is an individual journey that requires consistent, medically supported self-management guided by a positive attitude and awareness of the condition.
This paper aims to identify transferable lessons from the implementation of diabetic retinopathy screening that could be applied to rheumatic heart disease echocardiographic detection.
This article discusses the causes, features and management of recurrent lower limb ulcers in a woman aged 75 years.
A man aged 60 years presented with an irregularly shaped erythematous scalp plaque with a 5 cm diameter.
Interconception care is becoming increasingly important, with rising rates of overweight, obesity, diabetes and hypertension among people of reproductive age.