This week is World Antibiotic Awareness Week, an annual event that aims to draw attention to the effective use of antibiotics (a type of antimicrobial) in preventing and containing antimicro... Read more
In this latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell looks at the intangible costs (especially mental health costs) of bush fires. She discusses how the drought and... Read more
The third annual Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Australia (AURA) report, released today, highlights the importance of getting everyone on board with our national antimicrobial resistanc... Read more
The World Health Organization is today (5 May) mounting a global campaign to tackle antibiotic resistance through wider uptake of handwashing. Croakey readers can follow the campaign via #ha... Read more
This fortnight’s Health Wrap is compiled by Megan Howe, the Sax Institute’s Publications Manager. Enjoy the Wrap and tweet us via @SaxInstitute if you have any ideas for future issues. Facin... Read more
Climate change and other health-related issues feature prominently in the World Economic Forum’s new report, Global Risks 2013, which is based on a survey, conducted last September, of over... Read more
As previously reported, Sweden has shown it is possible to reduce prescribing of antibiotics. Can Australia manage similar? The NPS is hoping so – as you may have heard, it has launche... Read more
(Update, Feb 27: Links to further reading have been added to the bottom of the post) The NPS recently launched an education initiative for health professionals as part of a new five-year eff... Read more
(Following on from the previous post on infection control in hospitals.) The Centre for Research in Critical Infection held a meeting recently at the University of Sydney, where the threat o... Read more
