‘Truly bizarre meeting’: Police called to medical college vote The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has been in turmoil for months due to an ongoing dispute between its president and her elected successor.

Embarrassed by behaviour of my medical College leadership & other Fellows involved in this debacle.They should all resign!
Seriously considering leaving @theRACP.bsky.social as future looks v dim. Calling the NSW Police sounded planned & frankly adolescent (not to mention waste of police time)! 🥺😩😖

Peripheral Edema in Advanced Cancer: Mechanisms and Management-A Scoping Review - PubMed Peripheral edema in patients with advanced cancer arises from diverse and often overlapping mechanisms, and the available limited evidence from this scoping review suggests that mechanism-based interv...

Peripheral edema in advanced cancer has diverse, overlapping causes. Limited evidence supports mechanism-based treatment—diuretics, IVC stenting, decongestive therapy—with short-term benefit.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42010910/

They certainly are not all of us. What I KNOW is we are all migrants apart from First Nations people. Some of us forced, some of us asked and some came of their own accord. Everything is better having lots of different cultures in the one place. I live in a very diverse area and could not be happier

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠

Things that don't improve and will get worse with repeated infections ☠️

@atranscendedman.bsky.social 🙏🏻

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Kaneko et al. find that pregabalin modulates intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis by increasing Ca2+ extrusion activity via the plasma membrane Na+–Ca2+ exchanger in Merkel cells. Learn more in #PainReports bit.ly/4ruK4qb

Fiona Katauskas cartoon depicts a pub band Angus and the Blowhards. A woman sitting at the bar explains to her friend "It's just a One Nation cover. But the guy on the dogwhistle thinks he's hitting the right notes.

@fionakatauskas.bsky.social sums-up perfectly what the Liberal Party has become under Angus Taylor: a One Nation cover band. Breathtakingly accurate commentary. #auspol #racism

Angus Taylor. Liberal Party Leader.
Australian Opposition Leader.
@cathywilcox.bsky.social cartoon today is absolutely outstanding. 🏆 Why don't journalists call him out on these facts?! #auspol #immigration #racism #Gaza

Luv @cathywilcox.bsky.social

Antarctica is actually very close to paradise for GOP idealists. There are 0 gendered bathroom signs. Ice is welcome there, and white is the priority color. Yes, there's some eating of cats and dogs, and some face eating leopard seals, but it's nothing they haven't endured before.

As a part of the ongoing series on “Integrating Palliative Care across Medical Specialities”, the IAPC Infographic for April 2026: Kidney Supportive Care. Please feel free to share www.palliativecare.in/iapcs-infogr...

Palliative care has always included #spiritualcare, but the provision and inclusion of spiritual care within and across palliative care services internationally is sub-optimal. www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14...

Univ of Pennsylvania Prof Michael Mann discusses systemic disinformation climate and science risks YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

My talk earlier this week at the @cam.ac.uk #DisinformationSummit in Cambridge UK where I discussed my recent book with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, and the intersection of science denial and disinformation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8u-...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A picture of the twins in the corridor from horror movie The Shining, with the overlaid text THE DATES 13/04 - 08/06 WHICH UNI WILL CHAMPION? LET THE GAMES BEGIN... Join our Lifeblood Team

Every year, staff and students at Australian medical schools compete in the Vampire Cup to donate the most blood and blood products over a 8 week period. And donations from family and friends count too! So, if you know a med schoolie, book yourself in for a good cause. 🩸🤗

Changing the face of politics - Pathways to Politics The Pathways to Politics Program for Women is a national, proudly non-partisan initiative that aims to change the face of politics by equipping women with the skills, knowledge, confidence and network...

Canberra & region (incl South Coast) women intending to run for federal, state/territory or local politics, do apply for this fantastic (& fully-funded) non-partisan program. 🗳️

I’m Director of #PathwaysToPolitics #UniCBR in 2026. Applications open now: pathwaystopolitics.org.au

Safety review links herb in popular cold and flu supplements with life-threatening anaphylaxis

Thinking of those who are waking up every day to check if family and friends are safe, and who are having to endure our government continually failing to acknowledge, call out and act on war crimes, genocide.

For the amount that News Corp goes ‘disabled people are wasting our tax money by staying alive’ you would assume the company would bother actually paying tax

ICYMI:

3 pearls for Peripheral edema from the TI's Dr. Jessica Otte

#DrugEvidence25 #edema #MedEd

Left and Right Populism. It has arrived in Australia Australia Has Two Populist Movements. We’re Only Talking About One.

The two-party system ‘is being hollowed out from two different directions by two different generations…bound together by…a shared sense that the system was not built for them & has no serious intention of being rebuilt.’

🎯 @kossamaras.bsky.social

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POLYANALGESIC TITRATION FOR OPIOID-REFRACTORY PAIN
In pall care, conventional approach is serial monotherapy
Non-opioid analgesics one at a time
If partial response, add a 2nd; no response, switch to 2nd.
But this takes time. Here we describe an alternative approach
spcare.bmj.com/content/earl...

Steroidal MRAs may offer a more cost-effective treatment option for CKD. Learn why in this #ASNJASN #Perspective. kidney.pub/JASN1052 @drtariqshafi.bsky.social

In another first for FHJ,here's their first video article, a conversation/reflection about the Australian experience of legalising Assisted Dying. Thoughtful, courteous, curious, balanced.
Thanks to @katherinesleeman.bsky.social Dr Tom Osborne & Lucy Easthope

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Buckle up, folks, I have big news.
I was invited to guest edit this month's
@futurehealthj.bsky.social from @rcphysicians.bsky.social *

Yes, a dedicated #PallCall & #EoLCare issue!

It's open access, so here's the full contents with links.
This may require more than a single pot of tea.
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The Conversion Ratio From Intravenous Hydromorphone to Oral Opioids in Cancer Patients - PubMed Our study found that 1 mg of IV hydromorphone is equivalent to 2.5 mg of oral hydromorphone and 11.46 mg of MEDD. Hydromorphone at doses ≥30 mg/day may require a lower ORR to other opioids.

In cancer patients, 1 mg IV hydromorphone equals 2.5 mg oral hydromorphone and ~11.5 mg oral morphine equivalent. At doses ≥30 mg/day IV, a lower conversion ratio is needed, reflecting cross- tolerance

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28711751/

Antiemetic Corticosteroid Rotation from Dexamethasone to Methylprednisolone to Prevent Dexamethasone-Induced Hiccup in Cancer Patients Treated with Chemotherapy: A Randomized, Single-Blind, Crossover Phase III Trial - PubMed In this randomized, multicenter, phase III trial, hiccup intensity was significantly lower when the antiemetic corticosteroid was rotated from dexamethasone to methylprednisolone without a change in emesis intensity than that when dexamethasone was maintained. At the crossover phase, hiccup intensit …

Hiccups after IV dexamethasone are more common in males and is resolved using another corticoid

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28687626/

Association of structural brain changes with cognitive deficits and fatigue in patients with post COVID-19 condition Schwichtenberg et al. report that patients with post COVID-19 condition show cognitive deficits across multiple domains, fatigue, and reduced quality of li

academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Updates on the South Australian Election Result I’ve been in Adelaide this week working for the ABC on the state election coverage. I may have retired from on camera work, but I’m still involved in analysis off camera. And last night…

I could scroll through the vomitous tabloid trash garbage that is the mainstream news media's coverage of the South Australia election. Or I could read @antonygreenelec.bsky.social's blog. Hmm. 🤔 #SAvotes #auspol antonygreen.com.au/updates-on-t...

"We don't have a shortage of supply. We have a glut of greed."

“According to the Australia Institute, around 30% of all gas exported from Australia is not needed to meet contract commitments.”

Great seeing @edhusicmp.bsky.social quoting our research in Parliament yesterday! 👏 #auspol