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The social, political and ecological pathologies of the Ebola Crisis cannot be ignored
By David McCoy The Ebola virus is finally receiving attention after years of being ignored as just another deadly disease in Africa. Yet it was only when the current outbreak got […]
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Medact Student Blog: Inequality and Health
In the first event of the Global Health Justice series, Medact and QMUL hosted a talk titled ‘Global Health Justice: Harnessing academia to inform policy’. This was attended by Global […]
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The RCPsych leads the way with their first Sustainability Summit – find out more.
On the 1st October we had the first sustainability summit run by a medical royal college in the UK. However, people continue to think that sustainability remains the remit of […]
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Is the Harvard School of Public Health Afraid of Politics?
To no one’s surprise, the Lancet-Oslo Commission did not withdraw its disappointing recommendations on global governance for health. In an earlier blog, I criticised the Commission’s failure to act on […]
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Besieging the Health Services in Gaza: A Profitable Business
Corporate Watch’s full briefing Besieging Health Services in Gaza: A Profitable Business can be downloaded for free here or order a paper copy. Even before the latest Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, which has […]
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Wars and peace in Kazakhstan
By Tony Waterston “What has International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) achieved anyway?” The question posed at a workshop on primary prevention needed answering, since the 21st IPPNW Congress […]
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Report from IPPNW’s 21st Congress, Astana, Kazakhstan, 27 – 29 August 2014
About 500 delegates from nations world-wide met in the amazing Conference Centre in the centre of the ultra-modern city of Astana, new capital of Kazakhstan. Six delegates, including Simon Rushton, […]
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Boots loots – what has happened to our friendly high street pharmacist?
Our friendly high street pharmacists are turning into trojan horses for further NHS privatisation. Image: Flickr/Leo Reynolds. Some rights reserved. Britain’s trusted high street chemist hasn’t been feeling well of late – […]
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Message to the Canadian Medical Association: Leaving fossil fuels behind is not unaffordable – it is the alternative that is unaffordable.
In recent years, the UK medical establishment has come to take increasingly serious the warning of the Lancet-UCL commission that anthropogenic climate change may pose the “greatest threat to global […]
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999 March for the NHS sets off tomorrow for 3 weeks
NHS campaigners are marching in the footsteps of the 1936 Jarrow hunger marchers, joining up NHS camapiagners across the country. Will you join them en-route? Credit: Copyright Vin MullenAs the Coaltion Government’s […]
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Gaza should make us sick; but we need a more courageous, honest and truthful debate
Ghassan Hamdan is a doctor from Gaza. He works for the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, and is a member of the Peoples Health Movement. He has been sending frequent messages […]