6minutes is an online newsletter and website for Australian doctors, including general and specialist practitioners, published by Reed Business Information. It's been developed in response to the rapidly changing face of journalism, the growth of the Internet, the trend to interactivity online and doctors' complaints of being deluged with information from multiple sources.

Medical Editor of 6minutes, Dr Annette Katelaris graduated from the University of Sydney in 1987. After hospital training she commenced general practice and completed her FRACGP. She has worked as a general practitioner in Sydney and London.

Annette holds a Masters of Public Health from the University of Sydney. Annette has worked in medical publishing for the last three years, most recently as Medical Editor of Australian Doctor.

Originally from the UK, 6minutes editor Michael Woodhead has worked as a medical journalist for more than 15 years. A pharmacology graduate, Michael worked in the pharmaceutical industry before becoming an editor with MIMS in London. He since has worked for GP and Pulse in the UK, Medical Tribune in Hong Kong and New Zealand Doctor before making the move to Australia in 1996. He has worked at both Australian Doctor and Medical Observer and writes occasionally for The Sydney Morning Herald.

We hope the newsletter and website will be complementary to, but offer something slightly different than, traditional medical publications. We will break clinical and medicopolitical news, but also provide a space for the medical community to debate and discuss issues big and small.

Users are invited to comment, give feedback, set the record straight, or write something for 6minutes.