Medcast news and blog

Clinicians can now access trusted, Australian-sourced, clinically validated medical knowledge at the point of care, with automatic CPD capture built into their workflow.

Learn how GPs can recognise and manage malnutrition and sarcopenia in people with cancer. This FastTrack covers risk factors, screening tools, referral pathways and the GP role in multidisciplinary nutrition, exercise and symptom support.

Medical impairment assessment forms are where DVA compensation assessments most often come unstuck. We walk through nine common pitfalls, showing where each one occurs on the forms, how to avoid it, and worked examples from a sample case.

As more Australians live longer with and after a cancer diagnosis, GPs play an increasingly important role in survivorship care. The new GP Cancer Care Hub brings together practical, evidence-based education and resources to help GPs support patients living with and beyond cancer in everyday general practice.

GPs play a central role in cancer survivorship care. This practical guide explores coordinated shared care, recurrence monitoring, long-term and late treatment effects, chronic disease management, psychological wellbeing, preventive health and clear pathways for specialist referral.

Learn how GPs can provide culturally safe, inclusive cancer survivorship care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, rural and remote, LGBTIQA+, and culturally and linguistically diverse patients. Explore practical strategies to reduce barriers, improve engagement and support equitable outcomes.

Best Practice Software (Best Practice) and Medcast today announced a major step forward in their long-standing collaboration, supported by a lead investment from Best Practice as part of Medcast’s $5.4 million capital raise.

An oropharyngeal airway can relieve upper airway obstructions in an unconscious child without an intact gag reflex. Select size from incisors/centre of the mouth to the angle of the jaw, insert the correct way up under direct vision using a tongue depressor. Incorrect sizing or insertion may worsen obstruction or cause trauma, gagging, vomiting and aspiration risk.

Track-and-trigger scores have reshaped how we recognise deterioration — but the score only tells us when to look, not what we're seeing. Physiological reserve, masked deterioration, and cognitive bias, all remind us that clinical judgement remains our sharpest tool for reading the patient behind the number.