As previously reported at Croakey, the World Health Organisation is facing some awkward questions in Europe regarding the pharmaceutical industry’s role in the pandemic influenza respo... Read more
If the Government takes a close look at the health component of the latest CPI figures, there are some clear lessons for policy, says Ian McAuley, a Centre for Policy Development Fellow and... Read more
Continuing his series on mental health reform, Sydney psychiatrist Professor Alan Rosen argues that the states – well most of them anyway – have forfeited the right to run commun... Read more
Health economist Gavin Mooney has two offerings for Croakey readers. For those with an interest in citizen’s juries and their potential for informing health policy and related decision... Read more
Has fee-for-service medicine and healthcare more broadly passed its use by date? “Yes and no” is the suggestion of this brief report from The Canadian Health Services Research Fo... Read more
Now that the summer lull is ending, it’s time to get back to the big issue for the year ahead: health reform. If you ever need an example of why health reform is needed, and why it... Read more
Further to the posts below on the homebirth study, the AMA has sought right of reply. Dr Andrew Pesce, for those who haven’t been following the story thus far, is the president of the... Read more
Following yesterday’s Crikey and Croakey pieces on the homebirth study which has been hitting the headlines, I thought it only fair to ask the editor of the Medical Journal of Australia, Dr... Read more
Even if you’ve had only half an ear or eye on the media in recent days, you would have heard of a new study, published in the current edition of the Medical Journal of Australia showin... Read more
The AMA has been a critic of the Federal Government’s so-called “10-year moratorium”, which helps plug workforce gaps with overseas trained doctors, for some time. Yesterda... Read more
