An overview of recent major studies and developments in health care and health policy has arrived via the Hospital Alliance for Research Collaboration’s latest bulletin. You can downlo... Read more
Below is an assortment of articles and resources from recent weeks that may be of interest to Croakey readers. They cover everything from Indigenous health policy, to pharma marketing, swine... Read more
Maternity care provides a classic example of the pitfalls of a specialist-driven model of practice in health care. It results in more expensive and interventionist care, rather than a commun... Read more
Do cancer screening programs increase the health gap between the well-to-do and the not-so-well-off? That is one worrying implication from a study just published in the Medical Journal of Au... Read more
Right now, right around the country, well-meaning community groups, including men’s health groups, are out on the hustings, urging all men of a certain age to be screened for prostate... Read more
Drew Dawson, one of the gurus of sleep research, has written a long and informative piece for Crikey today about the issue of long working hours, fatigue and health service safety. Dawson co... Read more
The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s final report made many suggestions requiring much more work if they are ever to have any chance of implementation. Consultancies must be... Read more
Thanks to Associate Professor Kate Conigrave, a specialist in addiction medicine at the University of Sydney, for alerting Croakey readers to this useful resource for those with an interest... Read more
The PM made a big deal about the need to ensure treatments are evaluated and backed by good evidence in this widely-reported speech at St Vincent’s Institute for Medical Research in Melbourn... Read more
The Public Health Association of Australia is celebrating the passing of the alcopops tax legislation in the Senate today as “a significant victory for prevention and public health in... Read more
