Forget Media Watch. Today we bring you Media Release Watch, thanks to Dr Alex Wodak, President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation. In his sights is a recent release from Andrew Sto... Read more
Further to the posts below on the homebirth study, the AMA has sought right of reply. Dr Andrew Pesce, for those who haven’t been following the story thus far, is the president of the... Read more
Following yesterday’s Crikey and Croakey pieces on the homebirth study which has been hitting the headlines, I thought it only fair to ask the editor of the Medical Journal of Australia, Dr... Read more
Even if you’ve had only half an ear or eye on the media in recent days, you would have heard of a new study, published in the current edition of the Medical Journal of Australia showin... 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
As regular readers of Crikey and the Content Makers blog may know, Crikey stopped funding the Crikey Health and Medical Panel (CHAMP) and Croakey at the end of October. From Crikey’s perspec... Read more
In the US, journalists are pushing for the Food and Drug Administration to be more open to a genuine engagement with the media. They are concerned by developments such as journalists and FD... Read more
Laugh. Maybe it’s just a bad case of Mondayitis, but the coverage of today’s COAG deliberations on health reform have had that effect. Here in The Australian, we have the Austral... Read more
The standard critique of media coverage of health and medical research goes like this: we’re either naively enthusiastic and happy to uncritically disseminate researchers’ claims... Read more
Thanks to the American Association of Health Care Journalists for this useful lead. The Drug Industry Document Archive contains over 2500 documents about pharmaceutical industry clinical tri... Read more
