APRIL: Improving pain detection in older patients
23 Apr 08
How does pain present differently in older patients?
How should pain be assessed in primary care?
What is the key to providing adequate analgesia?
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Clinical reviews
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Telling smokers their 'lung age' doubles quit rates
23 Apr 08
Using spirometry to calculate patients’ ‘lung age’ is a powerful motivator to stop smoking.
Early AMD may be a marker for CVD in patients under 75 years
23 Apr 08
A prospective study has found that early age-related macular degeneration (AMD) can predict 10-year CVD risk in patients younger than 75 years.
Symposium
Awareness key in managing depression in later life
23 Apr 08
How common is depression in older people?
What screening tools are recommended?
Which patients are at risk of suicide?
March 2008: Prompt diagnosis vital in ectopic pregnancy
01 Mar 08
How can ectopic pregnancy be recognised?
Is surgery always required?
What are the implications for future fertility?
March 2008: Managing women with pelvic organ prolapse
01 Mar 08
How is prolapse diagnosed?
What are the treatment options available to GPs?
When should patients be referred?
February 2008: Identifying and managing nephrotic syndrome in adults
01 Feb 08
What are the main features of nephrotic syndrome?
How can proteinuria be treated?
How can complications be avoided?
Editorial
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Supporting doctors with mental health problems
23 Apr 08
Compared with consultant physicians, we are more than three times as likely to commit suicide. GPs have the highest incidence of work-related mental ill health of any profession, with a rate more than 15 times the overall average.
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No evidence for MMR-ASD link
01 Mar 08
There is now an overwhelming body of evidence that has found no link between MMR and autism but controversy over MMR vaccination has had significant consequences for MMR uptake in the UK.
Photoguide
Haslam
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Haslam's view: Is the coffee break a risk too far?
23 Apr 08
I wish they would make their minds up about coffee. one day it’s good for you, the next it’s blamed for increasing your risk of heart attack, cancer or miscarriage.
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Haslam's view: Travel broadens GP presentations
01 Mar 08
Travel is, for me, one of the delights of life. I’m well aware that when you’ve paid for and enjoyed a holiday or journey you have nothing left except photographs and memories. But I’m also reassured by the research that says that, when...
Special report
February 2008: Use a stepped care approach for atopic eczema in children
01 Feb 08
What is the role of allergy in atopic eczema?
When should topical steroids be used?
How can infected eczema be treated?
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November 2007:Helping patients to overcome obsessive compulsive disorder
01 Nov 07
How can OCD be diagnosed?
Are children and adults managed differently?
What is the role of SSRIs?
