Revelations this week that Western Australia health department officials recently accepted $750,000 worth of gifts from sources including drug and device makers are simply unbelievable.
Articles by Ray Moynihan 
Wealthy mansions are ‘on-shore tax havens’
Leading affordable housing advocate professor Julian Disney has described Australia’s mansions as on-shore tax havens that suck resources from more productive investments, and called for an end to the “huge distortions” in the way housing is taxed.
‘Unhealthy’ pesticide use lost as Macadamia industry massages media
The Valentine’s Day Media Massage — 15 minutes head and neck — was part of the Australian Macadamia Society’s preparation for a coming campaign to market the humble nuts.
Drug giant takes legal action against influential government advisers
The global drug giant AstraZeneca has launched legal action against 17 members of the powerful Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, as well as the Minister for Health.
Calls to review funding of unproven spinal procedure
A bitter brawl has erupted over the spinal procedure vertebroplasty, with new research finding that the Medicare covered procedure is “no better than [a] placebo”.
Spinal procedure possibly no better than sham surgery
A procedure performed regularly on thousands of people with painful spinal fractures may not in fact work, according to the preliminary results of scientific studies.
Time for MDs to get out of bed with drug companies
Despite their closeness, doctors and drug companies are becoming increasingly uneasy bedfellows, with calls from the very top of the global medical profession for a major clean-up.
