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Climate Change – health impacts & opportunities
What does the latest IPCC report mean for human health? Medact has developed its second briefing explaining the health implications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group II […]
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Climate Science for Health Professionals – a presentation and discussion of the IPCC Working Group 1 report
Health professionals are not climate scientists. But climate science is of profound importance to health professionals. Global warming is already having a significant negative impact on human health; it threatens […]
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Atoms for Peace – the Atomic Weapons Establishment and UK universities
Medact and the Nuclear Information Service have undertaken a two-year study to investigate research links between British universities and the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), which is responsible for designing and manufacturing […]
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Drones – 2013 update
This update to the original 2012 report recommends greater parliamentary and public scrutiny of the use of drones, their inclusion in arms limitation treaties, and a stop to further automation in […]
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The Delusional Thinking Behind a Policy of 'Nuclear Deterrence'
Twenty-one years ago the national conference of the Medical Campaign against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW) questioned the thinking behind the nuclear arms race. MCANW’s members were particularly concerned that this race was continuing despite positive […]
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Blood transfusion services in the wake of the humanitarian and health crisis following multiple detonations of nuclear weapons
The nuclear detonations in August 1945 at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (at 16 and 21 Kt equivalent respectively) killed at least 110,000 citizens immediately: an estimated further 130,000 died by the […]
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Mental Health Policy in Iraq since 2003
(updated 2012) This report provides a case study of the post-conflict rehabilitation of services and development of mental health policy following the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It illustrates common […]
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Drones – the physical and psychological implications of a global theatre of war
On October 13th 2012, Medact released its report “Drones: the physical and psychological implications of a global theatre of war“. In the past decade, there has been an exponential increase […]
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Preventing Torture – the role of physicians and their professional organisations
Preventing Torture: the role of physicians and their professional organisations: principles and practice was originally launched with a Comment piece in the Lancet. The report considers how professional medical bodies can […]
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The Future of the NHS
Alarmed by the way ‘choice’ is being used to promote the NHS reforms, Medact wrote a pamphlet which unpicks what is meant by ‘choice’, exposes how the increase in ‘choice’ […]
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Medact responds to NHS White Paper
Medact responded to the government consultation on the NHS White Paper Equity & Excellence: Liberating the NH, arguing that health professionals must be free to concentrate on the best interests […]