Every week, a different guest tweeter takes charge of Croakey’s rotated, curated Twitter account, @WePublicHealth, and uses the account to cover specific health issues or events. Big thanks... Read more
The Investment Arbitration Reporter has updated information on the cost to Australia of defending legislation requiring tobacco to be sold in plain packages. Previous public disclosures had... Read more
In the latest of the JournalWatch series of articles, Dr Melissa Stoneham reviews a Taiwanese study on how to determine the most effective smoking cessation messages and whether or not fear... Read more
Ruth Armstrong writes: On a cold Friday morning, Australians woke to some news worth celebrating. In a move that, as Simon Chapman told ABC Radio’s Jen Fleming, was “very significant but not... Read more
The Prevention 1st campaign this week released a scorecard on the implementation in Australia of World Health Organisation recommended interventions to reduce preventable chronic disease. Th... Read more
Last November, Australian casino giant Crown Resorts announced it had appointed former Federal Health Department head Jane Halton to its board. In the post below, Dr Melissa Stoneham laments... Read more
In the post below, Melbourne University Public Health Professor Rob Moodie provides a short and sharp list of tactics used by unhealthy industries to undermine all sorts of policies to impro... Read more
Writing in the Medical Journal of Australia about the flurry of misleading and contradictory information that followed the introduction of tobacco plain packaging legislation in Australia, v... Read more
The increasing market power of tobacco companies is identified as an important public health challenge in a major new report on the economics of tobacco control, from the US National Cancer... Read more
The impact of alcohol on the community has been in the spotlight this week with the release of two reports from peak health groups calling for more action to reduce alcohol-related harms. S... Read more
