Update, 5 July: The presentations and abstracts are now all available here. The symposium is underway today in Melbourne at the rather lovely Malthouse Theatre, with the theme Evidence, Comm... Read more
As has been widely reported, the Food and Drug Administration recently sent CSL a warning letter raising concerns about its manufacturing processes and the company’s investigation into probl... Read more
The issue of adverse events associated with vaccination has been in the news recently following the release of the Horvath report, An investigation into the management of adverse effects ass... Read more
In the latest update of health and medical news from The Conversation… Reema Rattan and Fron Jackson-Webb write: Here’s a taste of what The Conversation’s health and medical experts have sai... 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 the specialist health reporter is a threatened species in traditional media, then so is quality media coverage of health issues.” So wrote University of Sydney researcher Dr Julie Leask... Read more
Dr Julie Leask, a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney, writes: A new report on the uptake of the swine flu vaccine shows what a few of us had pr... Read more
YouCommNews, a website to enable members of the public to commission and fund journalistic investigations, will be launched at the NewNews conference in Melbourne today. The conference is be... Read more
The previous Croakey post raising concerns about the response of health authorities to adverse events associated with seasonal influenza vaccination of young children rang a bell with the Co... Read more
