Continuing a Croakey series on the health sector’s response to yesterday’s carbon pricing announcement (the link is to a transcript of the PM’s announcement). It’s ti... Read more
Economic concerns frame much of the public debate around climate change policy in general and carbon pricing in particular. But these are also critical public health issues. So what does the... Read more
Health policy analyst Jennifer Doggett’s recent post critiquing calls for a ban on junk food advertising to children has drawn a strong response from Jane Martin, Senior Policy Advisor... Read more
What is the point of health and medical research? Is it to keep researchers in jobs? To boost the economy and increase corporate profits? To add to the prestige and power of universities and... Read more
To find out what plain packaging of cigarettes will entail, you can read the detail in the Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011, introduced to Parliament today. (With the tobacco industry fight... Read more
Health policy analyst Jennifer Doggett responds to a recent Croakey post calling for an end to junk food advertising to children. Jennifer Doggett writes: Public health advocates, such as th... Read more
How can the digital revolution and social media help the Cochrane Collaboration and those with an interest in evidence-informed practice and policy? Below are some notes from a presentation... Read more
Update, 5 July: The presentations and abstracts are now all available here. The symposium is underway today in Melbourne at the rather lovely Malthouse Theatre, with the theme Evidence, Comm... Read more
As has been widely reported, the Food and Drug Administration recently sent CSL a warning letter raising concerns about its manufacturing processes and the company’s investigation into probl... Read more
As previously reported at Croakey, a recent media statement on climate change from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians generated some serious concerns amongst College Fellows and mo... Read more
