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Antibiotic Awareness Week: On the path to least resistance
This post below from Professor John Turnidge, Senior Medical Advisor at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, marks Antibiotic Awareness Week (Nov 17-23). It outlines how the...
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Tony Abbott’s Medicare “deforms” or How to Trick Senators 1.01
The Federal Government’s co-payments Plan B will add another layer of co-payment complexity to the Medicare system that neither doctors nor patients fully understand now. That raises a whole range of...
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It’s often said that if you don’t know history, you are cursed to repeat it. Consumer health advocate Martyn Goddard has been around long enough to remember the last time that doctors were up in arms...
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Many thanks to Dr Melissa Stoneham and the Public Health Advocacy Institute of Western Australia for this latest instalment of Journal Watch. *** Melissa Stoneham writes: Vending machines – they are...
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Using a systems approach to tackle obesity: insights from the UK
This is the first of a series of articles covering the CEIPS Seminar Series, monthly seminars that showcase systems approaches and complex public health interventions. This article originally appeared...
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Sharing the Patient’s Voice with Health Professionals
One of the most significant changes to our health system over the past two decades is the increasing role of consumers and the community. Consumers are now involved at some level in most areas of...
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The verdict is in: Time to better protect Australian children from toxic lead...
The National Health and Medical Research Council today released its revised Statement and Information Paper summarising the evidence on the effects of lead on human health, in which it lowered the...
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Australia’s ice ‘epidemic’: ‘service cuts, scare campaigns, stigma not the...
The Federal Coalition last week announced it was launching a new advertising campaign aimed at educating families and the broader community about the dangers of the drug ice, or crystal...
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Inawintji’s Story on Living Black tonight: “the high price to pay for staying...
Access to healthy and affordable food and good health care is a big issue for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, particularly those living in remote communities. The recent National Rural...
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The Good GP never stops learning: the RACGP video that made doctors cry – and...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has launched a promotional video as part of a community awareness campaign – and the early reviews are mixed, particularly depending on which side...
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The Health Wrap: Windfarm woes, the vaccination conversation, hope for...
This fortnight’s Health Wrap has been prepared by my colleague Ellice Mol, Digital Communications Manager at The Sax Institute. Send your ideas for The Health Wrap to me on Twitter...
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Pension funds pressure pharma companies to disclose trial data
The AllTrials campaign had a big win recently when a group of 85 asset managers and pension funds said that they would request that the pharmaceutical companies they invest in declare their clinical...
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