With the United States on track to record its worst measles outbreak since the elimination of the vaccine-preventable disease almost 20 years ago, the role of a global, social media-driven a... Read more
Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s deadliest infectious disease but not one that most Australians would identify as a threat to our community. They may be surprised to hear that in fact arou... Read more
Lesley Russell writes: My Colorado #skibumsojourn continues (great snow, cold weather, sunshine most days) so the focus of The Health Wrap continues to be on things American. It’s easy to be... Read more
In New York today, world leaders are meeting at the United Nations General Assembly for the first-ever high-level meeting on tuberculosis (TB). The theme of the meeting is “United to end tub... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Last week, it was reported that Australian researchers have isolated strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis that have caused invasive infection and exhibit “near pand... Read more
Below is the text of a statement issued by the Federal Health Department. On August 28 and 29 in Alice Springs a Collaborative Forum on HTLV-1 was convened by the Central Australian Academic... Read more
This month’s JournalWatch from Dr Melissa Stoneham, Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute WA, looks at the research findings of a social media intervention aimed at addressing lin... Read more
James Ward, Belinda Hengel and John Boffa write: Over the past two weeks, a number of commentators have called for the removal of Aboriginal children with sexually transmissible infections (... Read more
*** This article was updated on 22 February, 2018 *** (Introduction by Melissa Sweet) Emojis exist for multiple versions of baby angels, Santa Claus and Mrs Claus, as well as for fairies, me... Read more
In May 2013, the first edition of The Health Wrap was published at Croakey as a pro bono service to our readers from Kellie Bisset, who was then communications director at the Sax Institute.... Read more
