Local anaesthetic eye drops have recently been advocated as a safe analgesic following eye injuries, but the evidence is limited and the risks are significant.

The aim of this study was to determine what underlying factors, if any, impeded onsite COVID-19 testing in general practices for patients during the second wave of the pandemic in Victoria.

Knowledge of common findings and disease patterns shown on imaging of the knee, particularly relating to post-traumatic pain and monoarticular arthritis, is important for effective management.

Timely use of appropriate imaging for sports injuries is required for optimal outcomes.

Explicit, focussed, and repeated teaching of clinical reasoning and the systematic diagnostic approach is needed to promote timely, correct and complete diagnosis, and the reduction of mistakes.

This issue of AJGP examines breathing – how to measure it and how to preserve it, both while awake and while asleep.

A female patient aged 75 years had undergone bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction with silicone implants following breast cancer seven years ago.

A calculation of absolute fracture risk is commonly provided with bone mineral density reports in Australia, usually using either FRAX (Australia) or Garvan Fracture Risk Calculator (Garvan).

An awareness of disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis as a precancerous skin condition is an important component of any Australian general practitioner’s basic skin knowledge.

Pilomatrixoma is a rare benign appendageal tumour that can be easily mistaken for more frequent subcutaneous nodules because of some similar features.

A woman aged 42 years presented with left-sided facial pain of three weeks’ duration.

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.

Despite international consensus regarding the judicious use of diagnostic spinal imaging, patients continue to be over-referred.