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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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Robert Yates on Public Financing – The Key to Universal Health Coverage
[Originally posted 1.10.12 on UHCforward.com] Across the world, countries at all income levels are aspiring to the goal of universal health coverage (UHC). Hardly a week goes by without a […]
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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 […]
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Atoms for Peace Report Launch
Medact and the Nuclear Information Service release Atoms for Peace report at UCL. The report uncovered university links to the UK’s nuclear weapons programme. The reports findings and the ethics […]
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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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Courtney McNamara on Tackling Obesity: Should the UK take Public Health Cues from the US
A new report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) notes that nearly a quarter of the UK population is obese, a figure of expanding waistlines which trails only the […]
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Medact releases first briefing on the science of climate change
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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New report on the links between UK universities and the Atomic Weapons Establishment
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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Typhoon Haiyan Appeal
Humanitarian aid won’t stop climate change. Thousands killed. 1.9 million displaced. Super typhoon Haiyan – which hit the Philippines in November – is only one manifestation of an extreme […]
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Tony Waterston: Opening the Black Box on weapons of mass destruction?
Probably, chemical weapons aren’t at the top of most doctors’ minds in the UK. In the Middle East, where they have been used extensively in recent years and most tragically […]
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Medact News Winter 2013: Relaunch Conference
Medact News is our bi-annual newsletter. This edition covers our Relaunch Conference and organisational restructure. It is also available as a PDF download.