Focus

Gallbladder disease

Clare Bayram, Lisa Valenti, Graeme C Miller

Fatty liver disease

A practical guide for GPs

David Iser, Marno Ryan

Chronic hepatitis B

What’s new?

Jennifer MacLachlan, Benjamin Cowie

Hepatitis C

An update

Jacinta Holmes, Alexander Thompson, Sally Bell

Biliary pain

Work-up and management in general practice

Michael Crawford

Up front

Challenges and rewards

A career as a generalist

Glenn Duns

Letters to the editor

Clinical

HPV testing in the National Cervical Screening Program

When is it recommended?

Stella Heley

FibroScan and transient elastography

William Kemp, Stuart Roberts

Kawasaki disease

The importance of prompt recognition and early referral

Daniel Golshevsky, Michael Cheung, David Burgner

Pre-meal water consumption for weight loss

Handbook of Non Drug Intervention (HANDI) Project Team

Illicit drug overdose

Prevalence and acute management

Wenlong Li, Naren Gunja

Patchy hair loss on the pubis

A case study

Emiliano Grillo, Sergio Vano-Galvan, Blanca Diaz-Ley, Pedro Jaén Olasolo

Oral hyperpigmented lesions

A case study

Siew Kim Kwa, Esha Das Gupta

Research

Addressing high rates of smoking in remote Aboriginal communities

New evidence for GPs

Jan Robertson, Katherine Conigrave, Rowena Ivers, Elizabeth Hindmarsh, Alan Clough

The prevalence of overweight and obesity in Indigenous kindergarten children

A cross sectional population based study

Megan Hickie, Kirsty Douglas, Karen Ciszek

Reframing chaos

A qualitative study of GPs managing patients with medically unexplained symptoms

Louise Stone

To own or not to own

How can we best educate general practice registrars about practice ownership?

Elizabeth Sturgiss, Katrina Anderson, Martin Liedvogel, Emily Haesler

Professional

A is for aphorism

‘Nothing is sometimes a good remedy’

Benjamin Mitchell, Georga Cooke

Back pages

Book reviews

Clinical challenge

Melissa Tan