Australian Family Physician audio

Depression and anxiety are common presentations in general practice and medications are one of the key treatment strategies.

GPs occupy a unique position in being able to help people who are going through major life events. Professor David Clarke talks about the various coping strategies people use, and how we can help them cope more effectively.

General practitioners often see patients who are struggling with a change in their life circumstances. When this change involves illness, the GP is well placed to provide support and practical assistance.

GPs occupy a unique position in being able to help people who are going through major life events. Professor David Clarke talks about the various coping strategies people use, and how we can help them cope more effectively.

Medication has no place in the management of mild depression, and only a limited role in moderate depression. Severe depression usually requires drug treatment and Dr Steve Ellen discusses some golden rules for prescribing

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is revolutionising the way GPs treat patients with anxiety and depression. Dr Sarah Edelman talks about what types of CBT work best in the general practice setting.

Dr Louise Stone looks at what’s going on with some of our most challenging patients: those who somatise their problems. Are we helping by proving to them that there's "nothing wrong" when there clearly is?

Postmenopausal bleeding is always a cause for concern. An obvious, benign cause could be obscuring a carcinoma. Gynaecological oncologist Dr Alison Brand talks to Steve Trumble about how GPs should respond.

Postmenopausal bleeding is a common complaint from women seen in general practice.

Why do we do routine clinical breast and pelvic examinations in asymptomatic women? Is there any evidence that it increases the detection of breast or gynaecological malignancies?

Clinical breast examination (CBE) is often offered as a component of the well woman check or carried out at the request of an asymptomatic woman.

The launch of Australia's new vaccine for preventing certain strains of Human Papilloma Virus holds great promise in reducing the incidence of cervical cancer. But do we run the risk of missing tumors by slackening off on cervical cytology screening?

2006 was an eventful year in the area of screening to prevent cervical cancer. New screening guidelines were introduced nationally in July, and in November the Australian Government agreed to fund one of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines...

Ovarian cancer is difficult to diagnose and hence it is often not detected before it is well advanced. Associate Professor Margaret Davey talks about some of the patient factors that should raise a GP's index of suspicion.

Epithelial ovarian cancer presents most often as late stage disease due to a lack of effective screening tests and vagueness of symptoms.