Happy New Year to all Croakey readers – here are some thought provoking posts from around the Blogosphere to enliven your holiday…. As She Lay Dying: How I Fought To Stop Medical... Read more
Todd Harper, CEO of Cancer Council Victoria, gives us an insight into his personal discussions with the late Professor Gavin Mooney and how Australia can learn from the public health agenda... Read more
A short note to say a large thanks for engaging with Croakey this year. Thanks for writing, reading, commenting, forwarding links to articles, suggesting ideas for articles, and generally st... Read more
(This post was updated with more tributes on 28 December, 2012, and 12 January, 2013. On January 14, details were added of a memorial service to be held in Tasmania on 20 January. See bottom... Read more
This is the third instalment of a Croakey series profiling recommended books (previous posts are here and here), and covers titles worth reading about the digital revolution and the changing... Read more
For those not satiated by the recent post making suggestions for your holiday reading, below are some more titles recommended by Croakey contributors. • Associate Professor David Thomas Men... Read more
Such terrible, devastating news. Health economist Professor Gavin Mooney and his partner Delys Weston have been murdered in Tasmania (more details here from ABC and AAP). Gavin will be known... Read more
Mark Cormack writes: Gideon Caplan’s study of “hospital in the home” services, see Croakey and the Medical Journal of Australia , is a welcome contribution to the debate around the important... Read more
The decision to delay further the introduction of subsidies for the anti-stroke drug, Pradaxa, puts Australia at odds with the rest of the developed world. It also raises ques... Read more
The e-health revolution has begun with a whimper. As Associate Professor Craig Fry writes below, the lack of public awareness about the introduction of such a far-reaching development is a... Read more
