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Medact scholarship for two week intensive in Norway course on peace and health
Applications are now closed. Thanks to all those who applied. We will let successful candidates know in due course. Medact is offering a scholarship for up to five health students […]
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Fracking report and letter to Lancashire Council
Medact is currently producing an expert position paper on the health effects of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the UK. The report will examine the evidence on fracking: its safety, its […]
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Update: Urgent Call for a Forensic Pathologist and Medical Experts for a Fact-Finding Mission to Gaza.
Medact and its partner Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) are seeking medical experts for an urgent independent fact-finding mission to travel as soon as possible into Gaza for collection of evidence regarding: […]
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"#bedsnotbombs" Medact Archive Launched by the Wellcome Library
The Wellcome Library has curated and launched Medact’s 60 year old archive covering our recent history and that of our predecessor organisations MCANW (Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons) and MAPW […]
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Immigration Act Strategic Workshop
Medact has been working with Alma Mata, Doctors of the World, Migrants’ Rights Network, the Terrence Higgins Trust, The National AIDS Trust, Still Human Still Here, Maternity Action and other organisations as part of the Entitlement Working […]
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UK Doctors Vote to End Investments in the Fossil Fuel Industry
The British Medical Association, the representative body of doctors in the UK, has voted to end its investments in fossil fuel companies, making it the first health organisation in the […]
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Letter to the World Medical Association requesting it to publicly voice its objection to pressure on physicians to participate in forced feeding
18 Health & Human Rights organization call on the World Medical Association (WMA) to publicly voice its objection to different attempts around the world to pressure physicians to participate in […]
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Day 50 of the Palestinian mass hunger-strike: Stop Israel’s force-feeding bill
Since 17 April 2014, over 100 Palestinian detainees and prisoners have been on hunger strike in protest at Israel’s policy of Administrative Detention (see box). On 9 June, an […]
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Medsin Students: Would you like to visit Kazakhstan?
Medact is offering a bursary to a Medsin student to attend a Congress in Astana, Kazakhstan in the last week of August this year. The Congress is organised by the International Physicians for […]
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BMJ Editorial: IPCC report shows the need for “radical and transformative change”
In light of the forthcoming IPCC report, an editorial in the BMJ, written by Fiona Godlee (BMJ Editor), Hugh Montgomery (UCL), Sabaratnam Arulkumaran (BMA President) and David McCoy (Medact Chair), has called […]
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Tax & Health Workshop
Medact hosted a workshop on Tuesday the 11th of February bringing together leading experts from the tax and health communities to discuss how Medact can educate, inform and campaign on […]