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Abdullah Demirkol Ada S Cheung Adrian Elliot-Smith Alan Dugdale Alan Gijsbers Alan James Chong Alasdair Millar Alistair Vickery Amanda Barnard Amanda Chung Andrew Baird Andrew Beveridge Andrew Bonney Andrew Kirke Andrew Knight Andrew McLaughlin Andrew Pither Angela Gialamas Angela...

We decided to test this aphorism by establishing a set of conditions for which there are treatments classified by evidence of effectiveness. Clinical Evidence, from the British Medical Journal’s stable of publications, seemed to fit the bill well.2 It is a database of evidence based systematic...

Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the gold standard for diagnosing osteoporosis (OP). It uses X-rays at two energy levels and works on the principle that, as X-rays pass through body tissues they are attenuated to a different extent in different tissue types. The result – the bone mineral...

Questions for this month's clinical challenge are based on articles in this issue. The style and scope of questions is in keeping with the multiple choice questions of the RACGP Fellowship exam. The quiz is endorsed by the RACGP Quality Improvement and Continuing Professional Development Program...

Questions for this month's clinical challenge are based on articles in this issue. The style and scope of questions is in keeping with the multiple choice questions of the RACGP Fellowship exam. The quiz is endorsed by the RACGP Quality Improvement and Continuing Professional Development Program...

As Australia’s population ages, three things are inevitable: more people will develop chronic illnesses; more will grow very ill and more will die. Blueprints for the future suggest an increasingly important role for general practitioners and primary healthcare in palliative care.1

Would you prescribe a drug without regulatory approval, for which the safety and efficacy are unknown? Unlikely. Would you use a clinical practice guideline that is not endorsed by a peak body, with no accessible evidence for its recommendations and with its authorship unknown? Unlikely. Do you...

Case studyMr Lin, a Chinese man aged 38 years, presented for review of a recent chest X-ray. The X-ray was ordered as part of a pre-employment assessment. He was asymptomatic, a nonsmoker and had no significant past medical history. Full blood examination, lipids, glucose and liver and renal...