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Medact News October 2016
Medact has been busy in the last few months. Here are just a few highlights of recent and upcoming activities. Medact Annual General meeting 2016 Medact’s Annual General […]
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The Hinkley Point C decision – what nuclear energy means for health
1st October 2016: an addendum has been added to the discussion article written by Dr Frank Boulton on the potential role and impacts of nuclear power in the UK. See P.19 for […]
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Climate Change, Health and Global Justice
Concerns about the health impacts of climate change are growing. Climate change has very significant implications for public health and the topic is climbing higher on the international agenda. […]
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Shifting Towards Sustainable Diets – how dietitians can help
As we are faced with an increasingly uncertain food future, there is an urgent need to take a sustainable ecological approach to our food system. Dietitians can and should play an important role in this emerging area.
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An Updated Public Health Assessment of Shale Gas Fracking
Medact today released an updated assessment of the potential health impacts of shale fracking in England.
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In support of anti-fracking campaigner Tina Rothery
Tina Rothery is a high profile community campaigner in Lancashire who will be attending Blackpool County Court on Friday 24 June, having been ordered to pay costs of over £55,000 to […]
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Global Health Professionals Call for Transition Away from Coal
Medact has joined with more than 80 global health organizations from 30 different countries – together representing more than 300,000 doctors, nurses and public health professionals…
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Open letter to Shell's Ben van Beurden from John Ashton
John Ashton is an independent commentator and co-founder of the think tank E3G. He served from 2006-12 as Special Representative for Climate Change for three successive Foreign Secretaries. He spoke […]
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Waking up to the planetary health emergency: let’s divest from fossil fuels.
Zoe is a Medact member. She is also part of Divest London – a network hub for the global grassroots movement pushing institutions to divest from the fossil fuel industry […]
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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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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 […]