General practitioners’ ability to promptly recognise potentially serious side effects of treatment, especially those unique to newer therapies, can be crucial to patient safety.

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General practice registrars are responsible for a significant proportion of immunisations in Australian older adults.

Asthma presentations are common in general practice, but opportunities to control asthma are often missed.

While clinical guidelines recommend increasing the use of long-acting reversible contraceptives, current contraceptive use and management in Australia do not reflect these recommendations.

Although nutrition is important to bone health, the impact of different dietary patterns on bone density and fracture is unclear.

Dry eye disease is often underappreciated and underdiagnosed due to the vague nature of the symptoms.

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.

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

In this article, the authors describe a method for marking a lesion for excision.

When integrated into general practice, non-dispensing pharmacists provide clinical services within a team-based model of care to improve patient outcomes and quality use of medications.

A woman aged 62 years had a telehealth appointment for the management of osteoporosis.

Transgender people may seek healthcare for reasons unrelated to gender, but they are often negatively impacted by structural and interpersonal discrimination in health settings.

Medicinal cannabis is generally well tolerated, but the science related to its potential adverse effects is in its infancy.