Former Australian Test Cricketer, VFL/AFL footballer, author and commentator, Max Walker, AM, joined public health experts at the ‘Equity in disease prevention: vaccines for the elderly workshop,’ held in Melbourne today (Friday, June 20), to tackle the monumental health challenges facing our greying nation. Innovative, effective and long-term approaches to elderly immunisation were proposed to…

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times” – Mark Twain. Eighteen months after the Australian Labor Party introduced its plain packaging laws in an attempt to stop Australians from smoking, new data published in The Australian newspaper on Friday (June 6, 2014) shows…

With the launch of Bowel Cancer Awareness Month 2014, Bowel Cancer Australia is calling on the government to urgently address concerning inequities in support and access to life-extending treatments for Australia’s second deadliest cancer. The call has been prompted by the My Cancer. My Voice survey, which revealed more than four out of five bowel…

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Benjamin Franklin  Companies which succeed in the launch environment of 2018 – 2023 will take four essential steps now to ensure they are launch-ready for the future environment, according to the IMS Health report “Launch excellence IV: a new launch environment”. At a special IMS Health…

Hotly anticipated as “one of the toughest budgets in recent years”, last night’s 2014 Federal budget announcement has captured headlines nation-wide. So who are the “winners and losers” from this year’s budget? For many groups, the budget results appear clear cut (although as history reminds us, there’s no such thing as clear cut), with “losers”…