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How to absorb undocumented arrivals into a high-skill society. (more…)

Royal Commission will need (more…)

The upheaval in the book trade is somehow linked to the ongoing expressions of disquiet about our cultural heritage. (more…)

The upheaval in the book trade is somehow linked to the ongoing expressions of disquiet about our cultural heritage. (more…)

The admission “Not only Aborigines would benefit, for example, from the removal of alcohol promotions from sporting events” in the editorial (more…)

Red Maggie’s rise raises great expectations (more…)

As published in The Australian May 7th 2010, and as it was sent. (more…)

In The Age 100427 (more…)

Today’s editorial at The Australian (more…)

In The Age

At SMH Surgeons fear rapid rise in super obese (more…)

At Vanguard Oxycontin Express

Richard Leahy Pilot survives fatal PNG plane crash (more…)

After an encouraging launch Gardasil sales have been falling and were down 22 percent in the third quarter at $311 million. Reuters

Lucky Oceans on Health Report 21Dec09 (more…)

Atul Gawande’s latest essay at New Yorker (more…)

At Food Poison Journal, Effectiveness of liquid soap and hand sanitizer against Norwalk (Norovirus) virus on contaminated hands and comment.

Unpublished, to Letters editor, The Australian (more…)

With Harold Pollack’s Curbside Consult: Who’s Winning the War on Drugs? (more…)

“While half of the adults we observed washed their hands after touching raw chicken, none of the adolescents did,” at ScienceDaily

Foster Gesten at The Age

At MAC **testing for it** Updates 18/11 19/11 (more…)

In The Age by Beth Wilson

ABC RN 360 Bedtime stories (more…)

ABC RN Problem Solving Courts: Part 2

An insurance industry CEO explains why American health care costs so much, Ezra Klein at WaPo (more…)

Ross Fitzgerald in The Australian.
The truth is that an alcoholic’s or an addict’s best chance of recovery lies in practising total abstinence.

What’s this? Extra funding for drug dependant parents (more…)

May Contain Traces Of Mad Cow by Hilary Bambrick (more…)

Water, wheat, rice, corn, soy, cotton, gold, silver, uranium, oil, gas, diamonds, rubber At Worldbank blog

F.D.A. to Clarify Standards for the Front of Food Labels NYT (more…)

Confidentiality in Government Contracts at ANAO 28Sep09 (more…)

Annette Pantle, of the Clinical Excellence Commission, said poor hand hygiene was a worldwide problem. http://bit.ly/uQMzx (more…)

Smoking and smoking cessation: clinically significant interactions with commonly used medicines October Drug Safety Update from MHRA/CHM (more…)

The first stage of the Australian Government’s formal response to For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice (ALRC 108) considers 197 of the 295 recommendations made by the ALRC—and accepts about 90 percent of them. From Government gives giant ‘tick’ to ALRC privacy recommendations

… And I am looking forward to retirement at some point.” http://bit.ly/1GaoIM (more…)

The American Academy of Family Physicians today announced the Consumer Alliance, a new corporate partnership program, with its first alliance partner, The Coca-Cola Company. (more…)

Health hurdles a hard sell Letter and img

Katie Lahey That’s no way to treat patients (more…)

In New Matilda If they are ashamed of their forces’ efforts then they should continue with the draconian restrictions they have placed on Australian journalists in the past.

Asking for trouble – Paramedics ‘tampering with drugs’

The buses, each costing $100,000, would enable a tenfold increase in the number of paroled criminals undergoing urine tests, Corrective Services Minister John Robertson said. SMH

MRSA Day, 02Oct09 (more…)

ABC Lateline 02Oct09

At NYT Officials are particularly worried about spontaneous miscarriages, because they are urging pregnant women to be among the first to be vaccinated.

With Melissa Sweet (Going Dutch? Let’s talk about it, at least), Stephen Leeder and Ian Hickie. (more…)

David Hetherington in The Age

In The Age Prescription pill-popping soars among white-collar Victorians (more…)

Marion Nestle on article in Economist and Smart Choices.

.. who may have infected dozens of surgical patients with hepatitis C (more…)

Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler book on how social networks tie into health and human behavior, including obesity, smoking, voting and happiness. (more…)

… at DHS is Marie Johnson (ex Office of Access Card) Download DHS organisation chart (more…)

In NEJM roundtable with Atul Gawande http://bit.ly/vSd58

What we need to do in this round is set the predicates, set the landscape so that that can happen. That means, I think importantly, setting up institutions to study comparative effectiveness so we can get that information in place, and importantly in my view, making consumers more cost-conscious so that they’re more receptive.

Personal website of Jonathan Gruber

SMH – Alex Wodak and The Age (more…)

Richard Mattick Treatment of opioid dependence

The Age  We owe our most vulnerable more than platitudes

On cyber-comments

Editorial at The Australian

New York Times Patient Money: After Diagnosis, Someone to Help Point the Way

Check those fingernails (more…)

Here’s the sound track from Lateline 090910. (more…)

Re: Adam Cresswell’s ‘Nothing but the truth’ (11/9). (more…)

Whooping cough epidemic reignites immunisation debate [mp4] [wmv] (02/09/2009) 35Mb

Background Note from Parl’y Library, Social Policy Section. (more…)

Barry Everitt on RN Health Report 17/8

A memo obtained by the Huffington Post (more…)

At PSD (more…)

The most prudent course today would be to conduct careful clinical trials with due scientific deliberation; use the vaccine on high-risk groups, phasing in the full population only as evidence of safety and effectiveness becomes clearer; and conducting post-market surveillance for adverse effects. (more…)

Ed Killesteyn Australian Electoral Commissioner on RN
See Mr Killesteyn’s evidence to Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters

• GPs better equipped to monitor resistant H1N1
• Production problems could delay swine flu vax supply
• p13 Warts data needed to gauge HPV vaccine’s success – Julie Brotherton of National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance wants a ‘new surveillance system to monitor … genital warts’.

The PM was taking on ABC radio 774 today about the Turnbull-Grech business. The PM mentioned ‘matters of fact’. (more…)

Bottom lines from Five cases (more…)

Young offenders’ health critical to rehabilitation

The Age Heroin: a curse or a source of meaning?

SMH  What really happened to the heroin drought

Drug addicts getting high on mental health pills

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Some addicts even feign mental illness to get the drug, which sells on the streets for around £5 a tablet.

The Sunday Mail was also told the drug is being abused in jails, with inmates faking symptoms to get the pills. …

Rise in addiction prompts call for painkiller policy
The current situation – in which potent opioid painkillers such as morphine and oxycodone can be freely prescribed by GPs while the addiction treatments methadone and buprenorphine are highly regulated – is irrational and puts lives at risk, according to a policy document quietly released in April and set for formal submission to government within weeks.