We’d have a different set of expectations from reforms to health care systems if we viewed events in our own health story as parts of our integrated life stories. (more…)
March 16, 2010
January 10, 2010
Prevention vs treatment
Which entities in the chlamydia industry lose if prevention is successful? (more…)
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October 2, 2009
This makes sense
At Science Daily Protect Children First With H1N1 Flu Vaccine (more…)
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September 13, 2009
Diffusion of Opinion is deadly
Lesley Russell, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, has written at least two recent articles and spoken for one radio talk on the Government’s planned reforms of health care. (more…)
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September 11, 2009
September 9, 2009
Working together to strengthen codes of conduct
To: Parliamentary Secretary for Health (more…)
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September 8, 2009
Good call, Bob.
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September 4, 2009
IdM
090904 how will new Vic licence data interact with other identifiers, including RFID cards
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September 1, 2009
More Medicare rorts
..Ten per cent of GPs, for example, claim 54 per cent of all Medicare items for chronic disease management care plans, (more…)
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Another windfall for KPMG
Health policy wonks spin the revolving door in Toolkit to cut hospital errors.
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August 31, 2009
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Vision for EHR at Forbes
I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
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August 29, 2009
August 27, 2009
Public services contracted to private surgeons
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August 24, 2009
Returning home
Primo Levi, The Truce, page 286
But if we were Jews, then so were all those others, she said to me, pointing with a circular gesture to the eight hundred Italians who filled the room. What difference was there between us and them? (more…)
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August 23, 2009
Out-of-pocket costs for prostheses
The manufacturers of more than 2100 products on the list want health funds to pay between $1 and $7125 more for their devices than the price set by government. (more…)
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August 21, 2009
Multidose vials
How many thousand vaccinators are needed to vaccinate 10m people? (more…)
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August 13, 2009
August 12, 2009
Some sort of balance?
In The Oz Decriminalise abortion (more…)
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August 11, 2009
August 8, 2009
Ian Frazer on gene patents
Sharing genes is patently obvious
Five years ago the Australian Law Reform Commission completed a seemingly exhaustive review of gene patenting in Australia. Nowhere in its report did it make the simple point that gene patents should no longer be granted because sequencing genes amounts to tailoring pre-existing technology to discover something in our bodies.
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August 7, 2009
Hinted at national identification scheme
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August 6, 2009
Paul Valent on disasters
Meeting of the minds needed for warnings to work
As for communities, in the absence of clear warnings, the need for inner equilibrium takes over. Rumours, false reassurance, magical thinking, and groupthink become rife.
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August 5, 2009
DT104 outbreak
Food Poison Journal More antibiotic-resistant Salmonella cases reported in Colorado ……. H.R. 1549 – Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009 proposes the restriction of antibiotic use in feed animals to therapeutic purposes only
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August 4, 2009
Entertaining
Ang San Sushi Tue 04 Aug 09 (12:47pm)
How about threatening with a knife? “Just kidding, Your Worship”?
Oh, Mark! If a drunk is being loud and annoying in a public bar, but passes off his behaviour as “entertaining”, he may be asked to button up with high expectation of a meaningful result. (more…)
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August 2, 2009
A Medicare number is not unique.
Why not use the Medicare number?
A Medicare number is not unique. Some individuals are members of more than one family and may be on multiple cards with multiple numbers. Also, not everyone who needs healthcare will have a Medicare number.
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Food
SD Sweet, Salty, Sour, Bitter And Umami: Variants Of ‘Umami’ Taste Receptor Contribute To Our Individualized Flavor Worlds
Oz Food labelling decision shelved (more…)
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July 24, 2009
Healthcare identifiers and privacy legislative proposals
Call for submissions: Healthcare identifiers and privacy legislative proposals (more…)
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July 16, 2009
Maternal deprivation in rats, cannabis, opioids
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July 11, 2009
Clancy Martin, LRB
Diary, his alcoholism, baclofen, clonazepam, lorazepam, lamotrigine.
On this account, alcohol is like Xanax: Xanax perfected through millennia of human effort and experimentation, and therefore with lots of benefits that Xanax doesn’t have, but also several menacing side-effects that it doesn’t.
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July 10, 2009
June 30th, training session, Turning Point
A two-hour symposium* presented by Mal Doreian, speakers Suzi Nielsen and Matt Frei, on prescription medication use/abuse by users of illicit drugs. (more…)
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July 8, 2009
Are the homeless mentally ill?
Paper [.doc] 😦 by Guy Johnson and Chris Chamberlain
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July 1, 2009
The new face of drug addiction
In Medical Observer (trevork) July 3 2009
An added problem is the fact that, as Dr Nielsen says, pharmacists are unable to check whether a patient is a doctor shopper when dispensing prescriptions and the program only tracks PBS-listed medications.
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June 14, 2009
Warning: Alprazolam (Xanax, Kalma, Zamhexsal)
(From June Bulletin MPBVic) This item has been prepared by the Department of Human Services.
Recent evidence suggests that alprazolam is more subject to non-medical use, and causes a disproportionally higher level of serious harm, than other benzodiazepines. (more…)
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