Health policy wonk, political tragic, hiking & skiing nut.
Sydney 🇦🇺 and Keystone 🇺🇸
Dr Lesley Russell
It’s time for action on primary care reform, with a focus on communities in greatest need
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Latest THW:
- examination of Ebola issues
- US fallout from vaccine scepticism
- increased political scrutiny for US research
- lots of cancer news
- urgent action needed on prevention
And more ..,.
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Scientists discover 149 new marine species off Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands
They gave smartphones to 10 women from a working-class Indian community to make a documentary about their unseen and unheralded lives. The results are .... pretty cool.
Australia has a new rural health reform agenda. Will it fix the workforce problem? www.croakey.org/australia-ha... #publichealth
Wow, according to this, Clive Palmer will abolish hunger for 8 million people for...$50 a head 🤑
Love this exchange of travel memories from a part of the world I will likely never get to see.
But are you having fun?
In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital” would ever be followed by the phrase: “But here’s the thing.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Governments urged to crack down on illicit tobacco trade; cheaper cigarettes won’t stop black markets - Croakey Health Media
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#TheHealthWrap travels far n wide, from wintry Sydney to the Democratic Republic of the Congo & Uganda, and also to the US, where science and scientists continue to face tough times. Plus new discoveries in cancer treatments & recommended reading.
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This edition of The Health Wrap travels far and wide, from wintry Sydney to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic
Researchers have catalogued dozens of new marine species found in the depths of Australia's most remote waters. The result is a window into a rarely glimpsed world.
They gave smartphones to 10 women from a working-class Indian community to make a documentary about their unseen and unheralded lives. The results are .... pretty cool.
NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill.
“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
Melissa Sweet
Crazy gridlock at the summit of Zheduo La ( pass) above Kangding
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that's been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
