In this edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell reports on important pandemic publications, extols the benefits of physical activity and high quality primary care, and... Read more
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton has called on health leaders to be “open to new data and new science” in the fight against COVID-19 and other looming existential threa... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: A significant new report — COVID-19: Make it the last pandemic — has blamed a “toxic cocktail” of failures, errors and inequalities that have turned the... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The “shocking global disparity” in access to vaccines remains one of the biggest risks to ending the pandemic, the World Health Organization’s Director-G... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The use of external consultants by the Commonwealth public service has been increasing steadily for the past decade from $386 million in 2012-13 to $700 million in 2... Read more
Pressure is growing on the Australian Government to both support and accelerate the temporary waiver under international law of the intellectual property rules governing vaccine patents afte... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Federal Government’s decision to introduce a ban until 15 May on all flights from India and to enforce it with threatened fines of up to $66,000 and five years’... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Healthcare workers across the globe are being urged today by Public Services International, Amnesty International and the People’s Health Movement to join a global c... Read more
Amid widespread concerns about Australia’s COVID vaccination rollout, the Health Issues Centre is holding an online forum tomorrow (6 May) to address the general public’s questions aro... Read more
In this edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell reports on many aspects of COVID-19 vaccine news, telehealth, how poverty may affect children’s brains, New Zealand’s h... Read more
