Gremlins in the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Research Grants Management System may be causing some major problems, but it’s good to see the council using Twitter to engage with its annoyed constituency, writes Melissa Sweet.
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Healthy advice from the nutrition hierarchy? Fat chance
For the past three decades the NHMRC and Heart Foundation have been spending our hard-earned tax dollars telling us to eat less fat. For at least the past 10 years, that message has been demonstrably wrong.
The Australian of the Year: we’re lucky to still have him here
Even though he has been at the forefront of international clinical research and health services developments for young people, Pat McGorry has never expected to be so openly praised for his work, writes Professor Ian Hickie.
Roxon faces public health wrath over blocked report
Health Minister Nicola Roxon and her office are about to feel the reverberations of a serious dummy spit by a senior academic over the delayed release of a major review of public health research, says Melissa Sweet.
Roxon to face anger over blocked public health report
The findings of a highly anticipated review of public health research that was conducted last year still aren’t out. Prof. Don Nutbeam, who chaired the review’s committee, has written a letter in frustration.
Injecting some independence into blood clot prevention
The NHMRC’s processes in developing guidelines to prevent blood clots stand in stark contrast to those used in another set of controversial, commercially-funded Australian and NZ guidelines, writes Melissa Sweet.
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