When community sport becomes a political football, it’s time to change the game
Introduction by Croakey: Professor Brendan Murphy, currently the Australian Government’s Chief Medic... Read more
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I wrote a piece for Crikey today looking at how the soft drink companies are trying to rebrand themselves as the new best friends of public health. In the US, Coca Cola has done a deal with the Americ... Read more
If you lived in the US, you’d know. The Wall Street Journal reports that Merck has just released its list of payments to doctors for giving talks at promotional events. The list also includes so... Read more
Yesterday there was some debate in the House of Reps on the Government’s plans to establish the Australian National Preventive Health Agency, and we will be hearing more anon. You can download t... Read more
The conversations must have been lively at the Pharmacy Australia Congress in Sydney over the weekend. Health reform advocate John Menadue really socked it to the audience, judging by his 3,500-word s... Read more
An argument for eating less meat for the sake of planetary and personal health is made at the public health blog, The Pump Handle. The author is Liz Borkowski who works for the Project on Scientific K... Read more
As mentioned previously, some staff at Katoomba Hospital in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney have set up an anonymous blog to draw public attention to concerns that they’re not allowed to raise... Read more
The Productivity Commission yesterday released its draft discussion paper on the relative performance of public and private hospitals. Croakey has previously complained that the inquiry’s terms... Read more
As we speak, bloggers are gathering in Las Vegas for the Blog World New Media Expo, billed as “the world’s largest blogging and new media conference”. There are several sessions on h... Read more
OK, so the recent post on why Health Ministers should insist on health equity impact statements for all policy recommendations may have revealed me as a hopelessly tragic idealist. And that’s no... Read more
Why isn’t Australia making better use of its pharmacy resources? That’s the question on health consultant Simon Burrow’s mind as he jetsets across the world. He’s picked up a f... Read more
