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

Lifestyle medicine has arisen as a relatively new (adjunct) discipline to assist conventional approaches to clinical care in dealing with lifestyle and environmental disease.

This study provided a timely assessment of general practitioner knowledge and attitudes to prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV.

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

Screening with immunological tests is not a proxy for the rational process of formulating a differential diagnosis.

Meanings of fatness and obesity are plural and have changed across history and within and between cultures.

A summary of state-of-the-art scientific and bioethical research providing up-to-date recommendations on placebo use for general practitioners.

Prompt recognition and management of tinea infection help reduce morbidity and its associated complications; practical approaches to the diagnosis and treatment are outlined.

Lifestyle medicine adds to conventional medicine by closely examining environmental and distal determinants and individual behaviours that influence disease.

A systematic approach to the management of patients with atrial fibrillation, including the initial investigations required, rhythm versus rate control and anticoagulation for stroke prevention.

Growing evidence shows that lifestyle interventions are an effective component of management for patients with mental illness to improve mental health, physical health and quality of life.

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

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A broad differential diagnosis must be considered when encountering a case of rashes and joint pain.

This article provides a framework for interpreting paired Ross River virus and Barmah Forest virus serology results in an environment where numerical antibody titres are not routinely provided.