In case you missed it, there’s been a minor food spat going on at Crikey. When the nutritionist, Dr Rosemary Stanton, called for foods to be taxed according to their carbon footprint,... Read more
The New York Times, as previously mentioned, is reporting a shift in screening policy at the the American Cancer Society, which is now saying that the benefits of early detection of many ca... Read more
That’s the title of an opinion piece that an American professor of medicine, Nortin Hadler, has written for ABC News in the US. Hadler argues that “health journalism is more bele... 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 i... 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... 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 allowe... 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 ses... Read more
As mentioned recently, Pfizer is hitting the consumer and medical media in the interests of its combination heart pill, Caduet. Regular readers may remember that earlier this year Michele Ko... Read more
Maternity care provides a classic example of the pitfalls of a specialist-driven model of practice in health care. It results in more expensive and interventionist care, rather than a commun... Read more
The staff at Katoomba Hospital (in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney) – or at least some of them – have clearly had enough. In the cyberworld equivalent of taking to the streets... Read more
