The alcohol industry – and all those who sail with it – are awaiting the release of the Preventative Health Taskforce report which has now been with Minister Roxon for some weeks... Read more
Professor Ian Olver, the head honcho at the Cancer Council Australia, wrote this Crikey piece about why gene patent law requires urgent attention, based on his appearance today before a Sena... Read more
There is a new entry to the Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents. CRUD records the details of evaluations, plans, reviews and other such documents that should be released (whether by gov... Read more
Unlike most diagnostic tests, the retrospectoscope is universally reliable, even in the hands of a journalist like myself. With the benefit of the retrospectoscope, it now seems so obvious.... Read more
Professor Gavin Mooney, health economist, writes: Just 10 days after my Crikey article expressing concern about the lack of information I received from urologists about the probabilities of... Read more
Gavin Mooney wrote in Crikey today about the frustrations of trying to get some useful answers to his questions about the merits, or otherwise, of PSA screening for prostate cancer. Thanks h... Read more
Catherine Beadnell, editor of the Australian Nursing Journal, adds to the ongoing Croakey debate about the unfairness built into the Australian health system: “In response to Mark Ragg... Read more
Dr Andrew Penman, Chief Executive Officer, Cancer Council NSW, writes: Ragg reminds us that equity in health outcomes is a value more promoted in the health service than realised. But there... Read more
Health and communications consultant Mark Ragg spent a fair bit of time wading through health statistics and reports to come up with his own personal assessment of the state of our health sy... Read more
It’s the slow-news, silly season, it’s summer…and it’s the perfect time for pitching advertising dressed up as news, especially if it involves scare stories about sunscreens. And so we have... Read more
