This article discusses the causes, features and management of recurrent lower limb ulcers in a woman aged 75 years.

Modest proportions of general practice registrars have training in, and in-practice experience of, long-acting reversible contraception insertion.

A man aged 60 years presented with an irregularly shaped erythematous scalp plaque with a 5 cm diameter.

Patients and physicians need to be aware of the important implications that medical cannabis use may have for driving.

It is unlikely that medicinal cannabis will be used as a first-line agent for the management of pain, nausea and other specific symptoms, but it may have a complementary role within palliative care.

Early identification of all skin cancers enables improved patient outcomes and results in a wider range of treatment options being available locally in general practice.

Interconception care is becoming increasingly important, with rising rates of overweight, obesity, diabetes and hypertension among people of reproductive age.

Young people experience higher rates of sexually transmissible infections and lower screening rates than the general population in Australia.

Skin cancer follow-up is most effective when general practitioners establish follow-up strategies suited to the rural populations and supported by evidence-based guidelines for skins cancers.

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.

There are multiple resources available to primary health practitioners to improve their communication with refugee and asylum seeker patients.

Despite recent exponential growth in research on familial hypercholesterolaemia, there remains a general lack of public and health professional awareness about the disorder.

Although myeloproliferative neoplasms are rare illnesses, the general practitioner is well placed to identify suspicious features and initiate investigations and referral.

There is a great deal of interest in the potential symptomatic benefits of medicinal cannabis for developmental disorders.