Clinical Focus

Clinical Focus Case Report

Managing chronic kidney disease with physical activity

6th June 2022
Alan is a 58-year-old courier driver who has chronic kidney disease. His medical history includes type 2 diabetes …
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5 minutes to read
Clinical Focus Spot Diagnosis

What's causing this periumbilical pain?

3rd June 2022
Matt, a 42-year-old lawyer, presents with periumbilical pain and discharge draining from the umbilicus. He first noticed…
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1 minute to read
umbilical redness
Clinical Focus Therapy Update

A GP guide to environmental impacts on pregnancy

2nd June 2022
The physical, nutritional and psychosocial environments of both mother and father affect fetal development and pregnancy…
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10 minutes to read
Clinical Focus Spot Diagnosis

Can you open your eyes to this rare syndrome?

27th May 2022
Geoff, a 47-year-old stonemason, attends complaining of approximately five years of hyperhidrosis over the mid-lower right…
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1 minute to read
Ross syndrome
Clinical Focus Case Report

More than just low mood and appetite

26th May 2022
Anne, an 85-year-old nursing home resident, is reviewed by her GP, at the request of nursing home staff. She has had…
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5 minutes to read
Clinical Focus Spot Diagnosis

What's driving these purulent intertriginous fistulae?

20th May 2022
A 32-year-old retail worker of Vietnamese descent presents with seven draining fistulae and open comedones in the left…
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1 minute to read
Hidradenitis suppurativa
Clinical Focus Therapy Update

Practical approaches to eye pain

19th May 2022
It is important to determine if eye pain originates from the eye or if symptoms are part of a serious systemic disease. …
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10 minutes to read