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Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In... Read more
Anyone can sign up for email updates here from the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US. Don’t be deceived by the title – the... Read more
Dr Ken Harvey, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, has written a long comment on my post below, and it is well worth a read. He also advises that he is puttin... Read more
You’ve got to hand it to Sanofi-Aventis. At the same time as the Vioxx case before the Federal Court is producing an alarming string of stories about the hazards of overly close ties between doctors a... Read more
The Government’s response to the 2020 ideas summit illustrates, once more, the enduring allure of the techno-fix. If boosting research into the bionic eye is the best of the bright ideas in health, th... Read more
Agnes Vitry, Senior Research Fellow, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, has sent in this detailed, thoughtful response to the recent Croakey survey on the issues s... Read more
There is a new entry to the Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents. CRUD records the details of evaluations, plans, reviews and other such documents that should be released (whether by governments o... Read more
Following the recent controversy about Australian and NZ guidelines for preventing blood clots, Croakey asked some relevant parties for their views on: • whether health departments, hospitals, safet... Read more
On Friday, April 17, a Pfizer advertisement told readers of the West Australian newspaper: “If you are taking multiple medicines for conditions such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol, t... Read more
Last April, journalist Ray Moynihan wrote this Crikey article revealing that public hospital “guidelines”, recommending widespread use of a group of drugs to stop serious blood clots, had... Read more
The awful irony about maternity care, as an important new report from the US makes clear, is that it is the field that helped launch the evidence-based health care revolution. The irony arises because... Read more
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