A team of researchers from Australia, Canada and Malaysia has published a systematic review investigating the impact of pharmaceutical promotions in the online journal PLoS Medicine. The edi... Read more
Temperatures are rising in the stoush between federal and state health officials over who was to blame for an inadequate response when evidence began to emerge that young children in WA were... Read more
Below is a soup of infectious diseases – a bit of whooping cough mixed in with swine flu and finished off with a dose of “Delhi belly”… Are parents getting good advic... Read more
If you would like to find out what it is like to live with chronic fatigue syndrome (and support a little experiment in community-funded journalism), please have a look at this story pitch o... Read more
This post continues a Croakey discussion about the new primary health care organisations to be known as Medicare Locals. It is responding to a request from GP Access, the trading name for th... Read more
An international meeting of professionals committed to ensuring women have access to abortions will be held in Spain on October 22 and 23. The title is “achieving excellence in abortio... Read more
This post continues a Croakey discussion about the new primary health care organisations to be known as Medicare Locals, and explores the question: what are their implications for mental hea... Read more
Croakey is hosting a discussion about the new primary health care organisations to be known as Medicare Locals. We’re crowdsourcing ideas about how to effectively engage consumers in s... Read more
Dutch researchers have done an interesting analysis of the likely benefits and harms – for individuals and society more broadly – of encouraging a shift from cars to bicycles for short daily... Read more
Dr Julie Leask, a senior lecturer in the Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney, writes: The decision of the NSW Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing today to revoke the Australian... Read more
