From behind owls-eye spectacles, Cathy McCormack’s diminutive frame breathlessly declaims: “ We are fighting a war without bullets”. In many ways this feisty wee woman – who from her days […]
I’ve been campaigning for a year and a half as part of ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and I know perhaps more than I’d like to about […]
The Lancet-UiO Commission on Global Governance For Health Commissioners should withdraw their recommendations and come up with better ones. The Lancet Commission on Global Governance for Health – co-organised with […]
The Lancet-UiO Commission on Global Governance For Health Commissioners should withdraw their recommendations and come up with better ones. The Lancet Commission on Global Governance for Health – co-organised with […]
The usual news venues have been making the usual noises in the build-up to the official publication of the latest UN IPCC report on the human impacts of climate change […]
The budget’s failure to clamp down on tax avoidance – centred on the City of London – starves both our own and overseas health systems of desperately needed cash. While […]
The food industry is currently adding growing amounts of sugar to our food. Consumers are largely unaware of this, as the sugar is mostly hidden. Not just in the well-known […]
There cannot have been many occasions on which experts on health and experts on tax have come together to see how these two spheres of interest and expertise impinge upon […]
Last week, Medact wrote to the Vice Chancellors of nearly a hundred British universities. We asked them to review the ethical standards and criteria that are applied to university research […]
Last week saw the release of the much vaunted “Political origins of health inequity” report by the Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health—an analysis of how policies and factors […]