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Introduction by Croakey: The federal government has faced stern criticism on its hard hat-heavy COVI... Read more
Dr Alex Wodak, President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, writes: On 8 September, a policeman involved in a drug bust in Bankstown, Sydney, was shot and died soon afterwards. Why did this... Read more
As you may have heard, the NSW Government has FINALLY decided to make the medically supervised injecting centre at Kings Cross a permanent fixture. About time, too. Here is a statement issued today by... Read more
As mentioned in the previous post, there are pros and cons to having a stand-alone minister for mental health (or any other specific area of health). On the one hand, you might get a dedicated ministe... Read more
Update, Sept 14: Warren Snowdon will retain his portfolio of Indigenous health after a last-minute change to the Ministry line-up. From what the Cabinet health minister Nicola Roxon told Lateline las... Read more
Simon Chapman, professor of public health at the University of Sydney writes: ABC radio on Sunday morning was reporting that “Figures show 15 per cent of women diagnosed with breast cancer are under t... Read more
I still encounter plenty of cynically raised eyebrows whenever I suggest that Twitter has become an essential tool for public health advocates. (If your eyebrows have just erupted into irritable twitc... Read more
For those who have been mystified by the resolute defence of HRT by some specialists, for those who are interested in integrity in publishing, medicine and science, and for those who enjoy a shocking... Read more
“If the specialist health reporter is a threatened species in traditional media, then so is quality media coverage of health issues.” So wrote University of Sydney researcher Dr Julie Leask today, whe... Read more
Can poetry help us understand what health is? Dr Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ, has a bit of fun with this question at the BMJ Group Blogs. Amongst other enjoyable quotes, he cites one of hi... Read more
Dr Julie Leask, a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney, writes: A new report on the uptake of the swine flu vaccine shows what a few of us had predicted la... Read more
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