The Health Wrap by Associate Professor Lesley Russell returns for 2021 with a big review of 2020 and the lessons to be learnt from the coronavirus pandemic, plus a close look at vaccines and... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Australian mining executive Clive Palmer recently took out massive three page advertisements in a number of capital cities, announcing he had secured 32.9 million do... Read more
In this second piece for our Monash University Summer Vacation Scholarship series, School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine prize winner Darci Bucheli looks at medical device regula... Read more
The Therapeutic Goods Administration exists to protect the public, but in an age of paleo, Paltrow and celebrity cures, what new challenges does it face? In this Monash University Summer Vac... Read more
Despite concerted campaigning by health experts, who won some concessions in the Senate, the Australian Government has failed to address concerns that the Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2017... Read more
A public forum last week at the Australian National University heard concerns that proposed changes to the regulation and advertising of therapeutic products will reduce scrutiny and action... Read more
A brief Senate inquiry is due to report early in February on concerns about new Federal Government legislation amending the regulation and advertising of therapeutic goods. Public health cam... Read more
In May 2013, the first edition of The Health Wrap was published at Croakey as a pro bono service to our readers from Kellie Bisset, who was then communications director at the Sax Institute.... Read more
Australian governments and the pharmacy industry should stop “dragging the chain” on the need to make medicines containing codeine available only by prescription from February 20... Read more
Last week came news that Health Ministers across Australia, bar South Australia, have lobbied Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt over plans for medicines containing codeine to be no longer so... Read more
