Darla is a 16-year-old who presents with a lump over the lateral aspect of her left elbow.

Each week, How to Treat publishes a clinical picture quiz.

The quiz has no CPD points attached, it's just

Two University of Sydney researchers have come up with five questions they hope will help patients, researchers and doctors more quickly identify whether a new test is useful or results in harmful

There are many reasons women dislike mammograms, chief among them the awkward and often painful process of having their breasts squashed by a technician into a machine that flattens them for the

In the days before the dipstick, doctors had to rely solely on their senses to make a diagnosis, judging the colour, smell and even the taste of their patients’ urine.

Swilling people’s pee provided

The MBS Review Taskforce wants to restrict access to Medicare-funded 25-hydroxyvitamin D tests, warning they are popular among patients as a screening tool despite a lack of clinical benefit.

Deciding when to order brain imaging in general practice should, in theory, be relatively straightforward: most current guidelines rely on the identification of ‘red flags’, that are aimed at

This story has been updated. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists would like to note that the decision support app cited in the MBS Review Taskforce report - an app called

An Australian doctor noticed the early signs of Parkinson's disease in Sir Billy Connolly during a chance meeting seven years ago and encouraged him to seek medical advice.

Tasmania orthopaedic

Deciding whether a child with cellulitis needs oral or intravenous antibiotics could be made simpler with a five-point assessment tool devised by Melbourne researchers.

They developed the Area,

GPs and other specialists will be allowed to refer pregnant patients for ultrasound for any reason they see fit, under a proposal from the MBS Review Taskforce.

The review’s diagnostic clinical