The Health Wrap: global health perspectives and the latest on obesity, wellbeing budgets and more
Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In... Read more
Professor Stephen Leeder, director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney, is first off the Croakey blocks with a budget response: The budget is a responsible response to... Read more
Professor Stephen Leeder, director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney, weighs in with some comments on Tim Gill’s recent post raising concerns about the Feds... Read more
Paul Smith, political editor at Australian Doctor, has had a briefing from the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission. He writes: The commission’s final report is due in about six week... Read more
A Sydney doctor, who wishes to remain anonymous, has sent in the following piece examining the complexities of conflict of interest issues. It’s timely in view of the approaching NHMRC workshop... Read more
The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission chief Dr Christine Bennett seems to have embarked on a series of media briefings to gee up interest in the Commission’s forthcoming report. This ear... Read more
The Vioxx case in the Federal Court in Melbourne continues to produce a stream of interesting and illuminating revelations although I had to chuckle at one specialist’s efforts to downplay his p... Read more
Dr Tim Gill, Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Obesity, Nutrition and Exercise, University of Sydney writes: Tackling health problems requires reliable, independent evidence in order to be... Read more
Ever since news broke about a US recall of weight loss products called Hydroxycut, the one-man industry watchdog Dr Ken Harvey has been on a campaign to get some action in Australia. The Food and Drug... Read more
The obstetricians are out in full force, suggesting that mooted changes to the Safety Net will “punish women and their families because they chose to seek help with their pregnancy and births fr... Read more
A pharmacy researcher who wishes to remain anonymous has sent in this comment regarding the funding deal between the Baker and Sanofi Aventis (for more background info, see here, and here and here):... Read more
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