Further to the previous Croakey post on the Medicare Select proposal, health policy Jennifer Doggett has some questions. She writes: “The Inside Story article is great – it really brin... Read more
The medical magazines, Australian Doctor and Medical Observer, have been carrying bright red, full-page advertisements from Pfizer, advising doctors that “patients will soon be asking about... Read more
New media has made health promotion so much more interesting. And fun. Check out this example – the US Department of Health and Human Services has launched a competition for a public s... Read more
Dr Trevor Kerr – who provides regular comment on Croakey posts – has written in, wondering whether there is any point to providing online comment about health policy issues. Of c... Read more
I recently wrote about the problems of silo-based health publishing, suggesting there is a niche for an across-sector publication that doesn’t cater for the interests of any one group... Read more
In some public health circles, it is seen as verging on cardinal sin to raise questions in public about the safety or effectiveness of vaccines. The fear is that even mentioning these issues... Read more
Having now had a quick read of Podger’s book (following on from the previous post), I recommend it strongly as an eminently readable and quite fascinating insight into the workings of the up... Read more
Bernard Keane has given a warmish plug to former Health Department Secretary and Public Service Commissioner Andrew Podger’s new book, The Role of Departmental Secretaries: Personal reflecti... Read more
Some time ago, an editor with long experience in the medical publishing industry and I were dreaming about creating a new type of health publication that wouldn’t take the narrow focus of so... Read more
The Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents (CRUD) played a small part in contributing to a recent Sydney Morning Herald series about critical issues surrounding suicide prevention, by Inve... Read more
