Medcast news and blog

Research reveals a notable gender gap in CPR provision, with women less likely to receive timely and effective resuscitation. CPR is vital in emergencies like cardiac arrest. This blog explores reasons for the disparity, strategies for improvement, and offers guidance on performing CPR on women to enhance equitable life-saving care.

Dr Artiene Tatian and Ms Melanie Funk discuss the impact and burden of eczema on individuals and families and address some of the management challenges for health professionals.

Chronic disease is underpinned by lifestyle and health behaviour choices across the life course. Listen in as we discuss the impact of health behaviours on Australian males and the strategies you can adopt to better support males to improve their health and wellbeing.

Join Healthy Male in this podcast as we explore testosterone as an indicator of underlying health problems and how to assess and manage these in practice.

This podcast highlights the crucial role of PSA testing in diagnosing and treating prostate cancer, the most-diagnosed cancer among Australian males. Emphasising harm reduction, it discusses advancements since 2015 and supports active surveillance for low-grade cancers.

The Check-Up podcast by Medcast presents a 3-part series to support GPs to use pathology tests more effectively, and reduce the harms of non-rational test ordering.

When most people hear the word “dementia”, the first thing they think of is “memory loss”. And while dementia does cause memory loss, it is so much more than a memory problem.

The Check-Up podcast by Medcast presents this engaging & exciting 5-part series, discussing the importance of physical activity.

Milo, aged 26, comes to see you with lateral knee pain. As GPs how do we diagnose, treat and manage this?