While influenza vaccine uptake in older Australian adults is fairly high, uptake in younger at-risk adults is suboptimal.

GPs require enhanced skills and confidence to communicate confidentiality and trustworthiness, and engage migrant and refugee young people on issues of sexual and reproductive healthcare.

This paper considers common mechanisms underpinning chronic conditions and how these mechanisms might be targeted therapeutically in primary care.

This paper discusses professional identity formation for general practitioners in family medicine residency.

The usefulness of modern point-of-care tests for group A streptococci (GAS) is determined by the presence of carriers of GAS.

This paper aims to provide a synopsis of health and economic burden of interstitial lung diseases in Australia, based on recently completed research.

This article describes an approach to the assessment and management of the common presentations of acute cervical spine pain.

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is the reference standard for diagnosing blood pressure abnormalities and should be used when possible.

Evidence supports some beneficial effects of antibiotics prescribed to patients with a sore throat and proven presence of group A streptococci.

Readers express their opinions on published articles and topics of interest.

Although not all women undergoing mastectomy will desire or choose breast reconstruction, it is important that all women have the opportunity to make an informed choice.

Gout is a common and well understood disease with patient and physician barriers to optimal care; practical suggestions to optimise care are outlined.

To curb unnecessary and prolonged prescribing of antidepressants, we need to support general practitioners to initiate antidepressants less often and to review and stop antidepressants more often.

Lifestyle medicine might offer an adjunct approach to better managing chronic disease.

General practitioners are integrating genomic testing into care, mainly through prenatal screening, and anticipate further impact.