What will be the impact of the H1N1 pandemic upon public trust in health authorities and campaigns? This is just one of many questions surrounding the pandemic and the public health response... Read more
As previously reported at Croakey, the Council of Europe this week convened a public hearing titled “Faked pandemics: a threat to public health”. Here is what the World Health Or... Read more
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
Some more pieces in the swine flu puzzle appear in today’s edition of the Medical Journal of Australia (some of the articles were previously rapid online publications). When you put th... Read more
Below is an assortment of articles and resources from recent weeks that may be of interest to Croakey readers. They cover everything from Indigenous health policy, to pharma marketing, swine... Read more
Earlier today, I put a series of questions to the Federal Health Department/TGA arising from the BMJ series raising concerns about Tamiflu, pandemic policies etc, as outlined in the previous... Read more
The BMJ has just published a cracking series of articles online, including a revised Cochrane Collaboration review, that throw out some hefty challenges to influenza policy makers, pharmaceu... Read more
This investigation from The Atlantic, raising many questions about the merits of influenza vaccination and the pandemic response generally, is worth reading for a few reasons. Firstly, the a... Read more
Maryann Napoli from the Center for Medical Consumers in New York recently interviewed Dr Tom Jefferson, a medically trained epidemiologist who has long experience as a reviewer for the Cochr... Read more
With today’s launch of what may prove to be the biggest vaccination program in Australia’s history, debate about the merits of swine flu vaccination continues. In Crikey today, a... Read more
