October 16, 2009 – 12:01 pm
As we speak, bloggers are gathering in Las Vegas for the Blog World New Media Expo, billed as “the world’s largest blogging and new media conference”. There are several sessions on health and new media.
I came across this event while doing some research recently on new media and health, which also led me to some [...]
October 6, 2009 – 8:25 am
The Pacific tsunami has brought back painful memories for Australian journalist Kimina Lyall, who was living in Thailand when a tsunami struck there in 2004.
She wrote about her experiences in a book, Out of the Blue: Facing the Tsunami. She will donate the sales of her remaining copies to aid the Samoan disaster victims [...]
September 30, 2009 – 7:30 pm
Who says US health reform is too complicated to be explained on the back of the napkin?
Check out this great example of clever communication.
(thanks to Dr Trevor Kerr for sending in the link)
September 30, 2009 – 12:04 pm
Health reform is generating much activity and interest right around the world. What can we learn from the experiences overseas?
Dr Mary Haines, Editor of the Hospital Alliance for Research Collaboration (HARC) eBulletin, has been investigating the lessons from the UK.
She has filed this report, based on the latest HARC eBulletin, released today:
“For those unconvinced about [...]
September 22, 2009 – 8:46 pm
The announcement last Friday that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved CSL’s vaccine against swine flu and that a national vaccination campaign will be rolled out in the next few weeks means two things:
• a lot of people must be working pretty hard and wondering how on earth they’re going to pull it all [...]
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma has published this tipsheet for responsible reporting on the swine flu, compiled by Times-Picayune health reporter John Pope.
The tips are fairly straightforward; the only one likely to raise eyebrows suggests avoiding terms such as “epidemic”.
This tips says: “Watch your language. People are already anxious, so don’t make the [...]
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, then clearly we are in dire need of some improved vision.
What a shame we didn’t end up with an idea like this instead [...]
Peter Brooks, Executive Dean, Health Sciences, at the University of Queensland and Interim Director of the Australian Health Workforce Institute at the University of Melbourne, has responded to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report:
Australia is, like the rest of the globe, facing significant challenges recruiting health workers from a diminishing source.
The health workforce [...]
January 12, 2009 – 3:16 pm
To get a broader perspective on the problems of the Australian health system, take a moment to read this disturbing account from The Lancet’s Global Health Network.
Hatem Shurrab, an aid worker with Islamic Relief, describes how close Gaza hospitals are to collapsing and being unable to provide even basic services to the injured and wounded.
The [...]
January 12, 2009 – 2:35 pm
Now that we’ve finished salivating over the presidential pecs,it’s time to turn to more cerebral issues, like what might Barack Obama’s election mean for global health?
Two European public health experts – Bernd Rechel and Martin McKee from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – ponder this question in an editorial in the British [...]
