She may not have been the highest profile or most media-friendly health minister of recent times, but Mike Daube, former Deputy Chair of the Preventative Health Taskforce and Chair of the To... Read more
The value of Medicare Locals to the community has been shown in the response to the disastrous floods that swept Bundaberg . The Wide Bay Medicare Local took a leading role in overseeing the... Read more
Physical wellbeing and health care represent among the biggest tests facing Australia yet you would not know it from the opening shots to the 2013 federal election campaign this week. The pr... Read more
The campaign to curb the promotion of unhealthy food has not only the strident claims of “nanny state” to counter. There are also the “health washing” tactics of the food industry, p... Read more
Besides former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the corporate heavyweights from Australia attending this month’s Davos economic summit was a leading figure in the campaign for healthier cities,... Read more
The AMA should reconsider its opposition to the concept of paid patient advocates, says Anne Cahill Lambert, a prominent health consumer advocate who writes below that many patients could be... Read more
Marilyn Johnson writes: Images that promote cycling in regional Victoria are often beautiful and enticing: smiling, happy people ride along scenic bike paths that meander through wide, open... Read more