Simon Burrow has sent in this comment on the recent Crikey article by CHOICE’S Michael Johnston calling for the community’s interests to be factored into forthcoming Government-G... Read more
Dr Lesley Russell, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney/Australian National University, writes: Forty years ago, heart disease accounted for a quarter of all Australian dea... Read more
The British Medical Association has just released a publication that many will find interesting, called Partners in Care: Stories about NHS patients and their doctors. It includes more than... Read more
Unlike most diagnostic tests, the retrospectoscope is universally reliable, even in the hands of a journalist like myself. With the benefit of the retrospectoscope, it now seems so obvious.... Read more
A study comparing outcomes for public and private hospital births was published in the Medical Journal of Australia in February. It attracted dramatic headlines. “Public hospital births doub... Read more
The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association is circulating this press release as part of its regular news update. The release quotes “a recent study by University of Westminste... Read more
John Greatorex, a Darwin-based academic who has previously worked as a teacher in north-east Arnhem Land for 30 years, has written the following detailed response to the Inside Story article... Read more
This spoof of the pharma industry and the medicalisation of daily life is promoting a new drug, Despondex, as a "huge step forward in the battle against exhuberance". Read more
Alice Springs physician Dr Rob Roseby has commented on the Inside Story article: “You describe elements of institutional racism, but as an industry the media is not alone in this respe... Read more
Continuing on from earlier posts, here are some more suggestions re stories in Aboriginal health that deserve reporting. Anthropologist Tess Lea, the Director of the School for Social and P... Read more
