Category Archives: vaccination

Why won’t the Federal Government support a no fault compo scheme for vaccine-related injuries?

March 29, 2012 – 11:42 am

The Federal Government needs to do a much better job of explaining the reasons for its reluctance to introduce a no fault compensation scheme for vaccine-related injuries, according to Associate Professor Heath Kelly.  To date, the responses to calls for such a scheme have not been helpful, he suggests. *** Why won’t the Government support [...]

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Health & medical celebrations at The Conversation, plus a wrap of other health media news

March 29, 2012 – 10:54 am

Twitter celebrated its sixth birthday last week, and this week it is the turn of The Conversation to be marking its first anniversary. According to the site’s co-founder, Andrew Jaspan, The Conversation has had more than 2.5 million unique visitors in its first year, almost 4 million total visits, and 8 million page views. Over 300 [...]

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A rather large wrap of recent Croakey articles: public health, health reform, media coverage of health and more

January 11, 2012 – 10:25 am

As previously mentioned, Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. Here is the latest compilation, covering from 6 October – December 23, 2011. The latest readership figures are now also available, showing that [...]

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The latest wrap of health and medical reading from The Conversation

December 23, 2011 – 9:05 am

Below is the final wrap for this year of health and medical reading at The Conversation. Thanks to Froncesca Jackson-Webb and Reema Rattan for compiling these wraps for Croakey readers. Vaccinations in the news in 2011 By Dr Julie Leask, National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance, a conjoint Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University [...]

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Why Meryl Dorey should stay on the Woodford Festival program

December 14, 2011 – 2:07 pm

Organisers of the Woodford Folk Festival are coming under fire for including anti-vaccine lobbyist Meryl Dorey on the festival program. Rachael Dunlop, Researcher and Communications Officer at the Heart Research Institute, wrote at The Conversation that it is an “irresponsible and dangerous” mistake. In the article below, the University of Queensland’s Jon Wardle argues that [...]

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New immunisation incentives are good policy, and merit sensible debate

November 25, 2011 – 6:11 pm

Julie Leask writes: The Federal Government has announced a major shake up to the way vaccination is linked to financial incentives, which will begin taking effect from July 2012. Changes to financial incentives for immunising The former immunisation allowance, with instalments of $129 paid at 2 and 5 years of age, has been scrapped. Now [...]

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Growing drug resistance a national concern, new Chief Medical Officer says

August 31, 2011 – 10:01 pm

Croakey readers may be interested in this interview with Chief Medical Officer Chris Baggoley, which appeared in The Conversation today………   Emergency medicine specialist Chris Baggoley has been appointed Australia’s new Chief Medical Officer, after acting in the role since April. The Chief Medical Officer works out of the Department of Health and Ageing and is responsible [...]

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An invitation and a note of explanation to Croakey readers

July 12, 2011 – 1:02 pm

If you have read the funding arrangements for Croakey, you will understand that editing this blog is, by necessity, very much a part-time activity for me. I am usually writing and editing articles in haste around multiple other commitments. Often I am wanting to alert readers to new reports/research etc that may be of interest, [...]

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Influenza vaccination and children: weighing up the evidence

July 1, 2011 – 8:10 am

As has been widely reported, the Food and Drug Administration recently sent CSL a warning letter raising concerns about its manufacturing processes and the company’s investigation into problems with its influenza vaccine for children, Fluvax (which has been marketed in the US as Afluria). The letter, dated 15 June, asked for CSL to respond within [...]

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Adverse events, vaccination and the case for a no-fault compo scheme

June 7, 2011 – 9:45 pm

The issue of adverse events associated with vaccination has been in the news recently following the release of the Horvath report, An investigation into the management of adverse effects associated with influenza vaccination of children (with the Panvax and Fluvax products). Meanwhile, a rapid online publication by The Medical Journal of Australia has called for [...]

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