Communication difficulties are frequently disregarded until they have a significant impact on quality of life, while the person may be unaware of indicators of dysphagia.

Continued support by public health nurses may lead to a comprehensive reduction in the risk of lifestyle diseases.

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

Reaching blood pressure targets in patients with chronic kidney disease is a challenge, but can be more easily achieved with greater continuity of care.

An update on the various treatment methods available today to tackle pilonidal disease.

Despite being aware of the risks of diabetes in pregnancy, less than half of women with diabetes had sought preconception care, and many had poor knowledge of the most reliable contraceptive methods.

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.

Australia’s outdated definition of obesity likely hinders management and contributes to the observed gap between clinical guidelines and current practice.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.

It is estimated that 600,000 Australians currently self-medicate with cannabis, with chronic pain a leading indication for such use.

Health coaching is an integral part of lifestyle medicine that can be used to facilitate behaviour change in key lifestyle areas.

Complex spinal pain interdisciplinary assessment in a primary care setting shows reasonable long-term outcomes comparable to more intensive interventions.

It is important for prescribers to regularly ask patients about their medication adherence and to discuss strategies for promoting this.

Street-based general practice services are critical to facilitate easy access to primary and secondary management of chronic multimorbid conditions in marginalised patients.