Below is the final wrap for this year of health and medical reading at The Conversation. Thanks to Froncesca Jackson-Webb and Reema Rattan for compiling these wraps for Croakey readers. Vacc... Read more
Much of the post-shuffle focus in health has been on the new Minister, Tanya Plibersek (The Australian has her prioritising dental reform, while the Sydney Morning Herald has her bedding dow... Read more
Thanks to Australian Doctor for sharing a most informative Ministerial brief on the Government’s response to recent reviews recommending reforms of the TGA (it can be downloaded here, and is... Read more
As previously mentioned, Australian Skeptics launched a fund-raising drive earlier this year to help public health advocate Dr Ken Harvey cover legal costs arising from action by SensaSlim A... Read more
Consumers have been campaigning for better regulation and monitoring of complementary medicines for some time. Dr Michael Vagg, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Deakin University School of Medici... Read more
(Apologies readers for glitches with punctuation; there is a gremlin at play in the system) Risk communication is one of the greatest challenges facing any public health agency; done badly i... Read more
Thanks to Froncesca Jackson-Webb, for providing this update of the latest health and medical reading at The Conversation. From scraping by to pizza and pie: how protein price drives obesity... Read more
As previously reported, a review released today makes wide-ranging recommendations for improving the transparency and responsiveness of the Therapeutic Goods Administration. Below is some re... Read more
The Therapeutic Goods Administration faces something of a shake-up if there is effective implementation of the recommendations of a review, released today, that is aimed at improving the age... Read more
In the US, two leading health researchers, Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz, recently called for fact boxes to be included with medications and pharmaceutical ads to provide a standardised,... Read more
