Before we reinvest blindly in Medicare or hospital care, we really need to map out the service landscape of community mental health care, writes Dr Sebastian Rosenberg.
Neurodiversity-affirming practice is now recommended in national clinical guidelines for assessment and supports for autistic people, but making it happen requires engagement, understanding, and effort.
This World Kidney Day, we highlight Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), which affects about one in 1,000 people. New Australian guidelines have been developed to diagnose and manage this disease, with support available through PKD Australia.
New provisional guidance from the RACGP on the use of e-cigarettes to help Australians quit smoking provides a balanced approach for GPs, according to tobacco control experts.
Australia needs to embrace a “rights lens” in health care delivery to promote the inherent human rights of Australia’s children and young people.
A project to tackle seclusion and restraint in one Local Health District in New South Wales not only reduced these practices, but improved leadership and collaboration in the mental health units.
Irritable bowel syndrome frequently occurs with comorbid depression, but traditional treatment just targets the troubling gut symptoms. A recent study tells us a new dietary approach may be able to treat both.
With the Total Fertility Rate dropping in almost all nations, the world’s human population is expected to fall spectacularly in the next few hundred years, writes Dr Will Cairns in Part One of this series.
General practice is the place to provide preventive care in the detection and management of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk, but GPs must do the obvious work well.
