New evidence-based musculoskeletal disease prevention and treatment guidelines for general practitioners have been issued by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and osteoarthritis guidelines have been released, and osteoporosis guidelines were expected to be available soon.

New European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis (OA) are expected to provide clinicians with a solid foundation of criteria for disease management and be particularly useful for primary care physicians. The guidelines were issued at EULAR's 2009 Annual Congress, held recently in Copenhagen.