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Reviving the Medical Peace Movement
Dear Friends and Colleagues, On the 6th August 1945, 70,000 people in Hiroshima were killed almost instantly by the Atom bomb. Another 70,000 were fatally injured. Local hospitals were destroyed and their […]
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Charging for non-EEA migrants’ access to the NHS—who will be charged next?
by Johanna Hanefeld and Richard SmithThe UK government has recently announced that it will in future charge migrants from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and foreign visitors a 150% […]
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Gaza Appeal
Medact has been working with Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR-I) to put together a team of medical expert to conduct an urgent independent fact-finding mission to Gaza. Thus far we […]
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Open Letter: for the people in Gaza
Paola Manduca, Iain Chalmers, Derek Summerfield, Mads Gilbert, Swee Ang, on behalf of 24 signatories We are doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and protect […]
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Open Letter: Support the opposition to force feeding of hunger strikers in Israel
Mark Porter chair BMA, David McCoy chair Medact, Cornelius Katona medical director, Helen Bamber Foundation, Iain Chalmers coordinator, James Lind Initiative , Frank Arnold coordinator, Medact preventing torture working group The Israeli parliament, the […]
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Guppi Bola on How Medact is going to help get the UK Eating Better
Earlier this week, Medact joined the likes of Friends of the Earth, Food Ethics Council, Oxfam and the Soil Association as supporting members of the Eating Better Network. Guppi Bola, Medact’s Climate and Ecology Coordinator explains our plans and how they fit nicely into the fair, green, healthy food scene.
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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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The Medical Effects of Nuclear Weapons
The effects of Nuclear War have been analysed by a number of campaign and medical groups, below is a selection of useful resources. Reports The concluding report from the Trident […]
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The Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons have a unique and horrifying humanitarian impact. The only natural events to which a nuclear explosion can be compared are massive earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and similar disasters […]
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The Secret Deal that Threatens the NHS
TTIP and the NHS – the story of a cancer patients journey to Brussels The Secret Deal that Threatens the NHSWatch this video on YouTube
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Health Professionals and Nuclear War
‘We physicians protest the outrage of holding the entire world hostage. We protest the moral obscenity that each of us is being continually targeted for extinction. We protest the ongoing […]