In the first event of the Global Health Justice series, Medact and QMUL hosted a talk titled ‘Global Health Justice: Harnessing academia to inform policy’. This was attended by Global […]
On the 1st October we had the first sustainability summit run by a medical royal college in the UK. However, people continue to think that sustainability remains the remit of […]
To no one’s surprise, the Lancet-Oslo Commission did not withdraw its disappointing recommendations on global governance for health. In an earlier blog, I criticised the Commission’s failure to act on […]
Corporate Watch’s full briefing Besieging Health Services in Gaza: A Profitable Business can be downloaded for free here or order a paper copy. Even before the latest Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, which has […]
By Tony Waterston “What has International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) achieved anyway?” The question posed at a workshop on primary prevention needed answering, since the 21st IPPNW Congress […]
About 500 delegates from nations world-wide met in the amazing Conference Centre in the centre of the ultra-modern city of Astana, new capital of Kazakhstan. Six delegates, including Simon Rushton, […]
Our friendly high street pharmacists are turning into trojan horses for further NHS privatisation. Image: Flickr/Leo Reynolds. Some rights reserved. Britain’s trusted high street chemist hasn’t been feeling well of late – […]
In recent years, the UK medical establishment has come to take increasingly serious the warning of the Lancet-UCL commission that anthropogenic climate change may pose the “greatest threat to global […]
NHS campaigners are marching in the footsteps of the 1936 Jarrow hunger marchers, joining up NHS camapiagners across the country. Will you join them en-route? Credit: Copyright Vin MullenAs the Coaltion Government’s […]
Ghassan Hamdan is a doctor from Gaza. He works for the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, and is a member of the Peoples Health Movement. He has been sending frequent messages […]