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Medicine, Conflict and Survival is an international journal for all those interested in health aspects of violence and human rights. MCS is the designated journal of Medact and its international partner IPPNW. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fmcs20/curr…

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IPPNW @ippnw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are you staying up to date with the Global Classroom? The next module is in 1 hour! Join us with Dr. Kati Juva and @anna-ikeda.bsky.social to learn about nuclear deterrence and common misconceptions. See you there or catch it online afterwards! IPPNW.org/Global-Classroom
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Full article: Calibrated survival: Israel’s regulation of life and health in Gaza www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Calibrated survival: Israel’s regulation of life and health in Gaza
This article examines Israel’s long-standing restriction of life-sustaining resources in Gaza through the concept of calibrated survival: a threshold-based mode of rule in which food, water, medica...
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nuclear weapons: an international history: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Nuclear weapons: an international history
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oncological services in Gaza amid genocide: the politics of care: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Oncological services in Gaza amid genocide: the politics of care
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 42, No 2 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fmcs20/4...
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Medicine, Conflict and Survival
Volume 42, Issue 2 of Medicine, Conflict and Survival
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 42, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fmcs20/4...
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Medicine, Conflict and Survival
Volume 42, Issue 1 of Medicine, Conflict and Survival
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Article collection: Palestine and Israel: articles published in <i>Medicine, Conflict & Survival</i> 1989–2023 www.tandfonline.com/journals/fmc...
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Palestine and Israel: articles published in <i>Medicine, Conflict & Survival</i> 1989–2023
Explore the article collection: Palestine and Israel: articles published in Medicine, Conflict & Survival 1989–2023. Published in Medicine, Conflict and Survival.
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Recent cuts to international health aid have had dramatic consequences around the world. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Recent cuts to international health aid have had dramatic consequences around the world. Yet some argue that this is an overdue reckoning for the imperialistic/colonial nature of global health, and that in the longer term, there may be benefits from reducing aid dependency and the ability of powerful nations to dictate priorities
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Full article: Caregiving for individuals with autism in forceful displacement crisis: experiences of refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Caregiving for individuals with autism in forceful displacement crisis: experiences of refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
This study examined the challenges faced by refugee parents caring for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Twenty-two parents participated in a mixed-metho...
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Known, published, ignored: the political inaudibility of science in times of war: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Known, published, ignored: the political inaudibility of science in times of war
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Elrayah et al. describe the resilience of the #Sudanese #healthsystem despite the severe challenges www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10...., Hemmeda the results of decreased #aid tinyurl.com/yt4xhyz2, made worse with reports of health facility closures in #Sudan today tinyurl.com/44vy2txd
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‘Despite the challenges, we must continue’: an analysis of Sudan’s health system resilience two years into the war 2023–2025
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Paul et al. argue for a #trauma-informed, #feminist and #rights-based #mentalhealth response for 'half-widows' in #Kashmir as they reimagine care for wives of the #disappeared caught in legal, social and emotional limbo www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reimagining care for wives of disappeared persons in Kashmir, India: a trauma-informed, rights-based mental health response
Published in Medicine, Conflict and Survival (Vol. 42, No. 2, 2026)
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
James Smith - #MCS editorial board member - speaking from #Gaza on #Channel 4 yesterday: 'People left to live in abysmal conditions' www.channel4.com/news/people-...
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‘People left to live in abysmal conditions’ in Gaza says British doctor
We spoke to emergency medicine Dr James Smith, who is currently working in a Gaza hospital.
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Shirley Hodgson commends Lucy Curzon’s Art and Citizenship in Conflict – British Women War Artists, 1939–45 as a welcome study of the art itself and of the artists' contribution to the record of the war effort and to the maintenance of morale - with some criticism of the book's production quality.
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Leo van Bergen, reviewing Palestinian Doctors: Medical Practice and the Transformation of Palestine, 1900–1948, concludes that ‘Although this important book does not tell a hopeful story in general, it certainly tells a humane one, and, alas, one that still has a clear relevance for today.’
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Book Review John Loretz reviews 'Empire of deterrence: nuclear weapons and the containment of politics' by Michael Gardiner and concludes that the book is 'a mash-up ideas' about the effect of 'the ever-impending ‘inevitable accident’' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Empire of deterrence: nuclear weapons and the containment of politics
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Book review: International ethics: concepts, theories and cases in global politics, 6th edition - by Mark R. Amstutz. Billed as: "…… the ideal textbook to complement your course" but our reviewer disagrees www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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International ethics: concepts, theories and cases in global politics, 6th edition
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Special issue for the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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From crisis to cooperation: IPPNW Europe’s blueprint for peace
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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The dawn of the nuclear age was witnessed by us at first hand
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Read Dr Masao Tomonaga’s Introduction to the MCS special issue 80 years after #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki were bombed: ‘The dawn of the #nuclear age was witnessed by us at first hand’, and how the young must ‘make global solidarity for a nuclear-free world a reality’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The dawn of the nuclear age was witnessed by us at first hand
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
From the history of the atom, to #nuclear testing and its ongoing legacies, backsliding on #disarmament and a potential nuclear winter, read the special issue of #MCS to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki here www.tandfonline.com/toc/fmcs20/c...
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Special issue for the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Volume 41, Issue 4 of Medicine, Conflict and Survival
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Women doctors against war – some pioneers: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Women doctors against war – some pioneers
This article gives vignettes describing some key aspects of the medical, social and peace work of five women doctors prior to World War One – Anna Kuliscioff, Madeleine Pelletier, Aletta Jacobs, Al...
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Trends in intra-state conflict and violence: is it time to adjust humanitarian assistance?: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Trends in intra-state conflict and violence: is it time to adjust humanitarian assistance?
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Conflict and mental health: psychological impact of the 2025 Indo-Pak tensions on Kashmiri civilians: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Conflict and mental health: psychological impact of the 2025 Indo-Pak tensions on Kashmiri civilians
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Health violence begets health violence: returning home: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Health violence begets health violence: returning home
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Questioning the relevance of medical preparation for war. The Dutch example 1939–1940: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Questioning the relevance of medical preparation for war. The Dutch example 1939–1940
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Bimal Khadka @drbimalkhadka.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Opportunity for #students : @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social  Holdstock-Piachaud Student #Essay #Prize opens & encourages students to explore the themes covered by the #journal who will be shaping the future. #Disarmament #climate #nowar #medact #competition #research #publichealth #publication
Opportunity for #students : 
@mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social  Holdstock-Piachaud Student #Essay #Prize opens & encourages students to explore the themes covered by the #journal who will be shaping the future.
#Disarmament #climate  #nowar #medact #competition #research #publichealth #medical
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Bimal Khadka @drbimalkhadka.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Insights & Advocacy from the 24th @IPPNW world congress in #Nagasaki #Japan. #peace #disarmanent #NoWar #hiroshima #publichealth #planetaryhealth #climatechange #hibakushas #dontnukrtheclimate www.medact.org/2025/blogs/i...
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Insights and Advocacy from the 2025 IPPNW Nagasaki World Congress - Medact
The IPPNW congress reaffirmed nuclear abolition as a humanitarian and public health imperative ahead of our lecture, Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World.
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Bimal Khadka @drbimalkhadka.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#Cycling for #peace. 542-km commemorative bike tour was held from #Hiroshima to #Nagasaki to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings, advocate 4 #nuclear abolition. #disarmanent #NoWar #planetaryhealth #climatechange #hibakushas #dontnuketheclimate peaceandhealthblog.com/2025/09/29/c...
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Cycling for world peace from Hiroshima to Nagasaki
[What follows is a day-by-day account of the 542-kilometer IPPNW Bike Tour from Hiroshima to Nagasaki, in advance of the 24th IPPNW World Congress, which opens in Nagasaki on 1 October with a Stude…
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Pia @cecallihelper.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"The elimination of nuclear weapons is an urgent medical, humanitarian, and public health imperative." ~ @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social www.ippnw.org 2 Oct.: "There is no coming back from nuclear war" START NPT TPNW #NoNukes #NuclearBan
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Home - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
The elimination of nuclear weapons is an urgent medical, humanitarian, and public health imperative. Learn more and get involved today.
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
#IPPNW Calls for an Immediate #Ceasefire and Return to Diplomacy with #Iran read the whole statement at ippnw.org this attack by a nuclear-armed state undermines diplomatic efforts
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Home - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
The elimination of nuclear weapons is an urgent medical, humanitarian, and public health imperative. Learn more and get involved today.
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Yesterday at the 78th #WHA 86 member states voted for draft resolution apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf... empowering #WHO to update their study on the public health effects of #nuclear war. Essential for reasons in a letter signed by many medical journals www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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Bimal Khadka @drbimalkhadka.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
131 Health & medical journals have issued joint editorial: Ending nuclear weapons before they end us-@WHO mandate to provide evidence on health effects must be restored. @bmj.com @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social #ippnw #tpnw #research #peace #nuclearban #planetaryhealth #publichealth
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Bimal Khadka @drbimalkhadka.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Opportunity: Apply Now! Global Health Summer School: Linking Climate Justice, Health and Peace | Berlin, 31 August - 6 September | Applications are open till 18 May 2025: lnkd.in/eKQQBXAJ #ippnw #tpnw #planetaryhealth #peace #publichealth #globalhealth
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The ‘Epidemic’ of violence against junior doctors in Baghdad: reasons, impact and consequences: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The ‘Epidemic’ of violence against junior doctors in Baghdad: reasons, impact and consequences
Violence against heath care workers in Iraq has reached an ‘epidemic’ level. It affects health care providers, receivers of care and the health system as a whole. This study aims to explore the rea...
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Nuclear is not the solution: the folly of atomic power in the age of climate change: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Nuclear is not the solution: the folly of atomic power in the age of climate change
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Full article: Moral courage, injury, and leadership in military contexts: lessons from a thematic analysis of conversations among international experts and students www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Moral courage, injury, and leadership in military contexts: lessons from a thematic analysis of conversations among international experts and students
Recent global events have underscored the importance of moral leadership and courage. A series of moderated conversations about moral leadership and dilemmas during times of conflict and crisis wer...
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Physicians and Nurses in the Dutch Armed Forces – professional identity, ethical dilemmas, and agency: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Physicians and Nurses in the Dutch Armed Forces – professional identity, ethical dilemmas, and agency
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Bimal Khadka @drbimalkhadka.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Registration opens: Join us 24th #ippnw world congress in #Nagasaki #Japan coinciding with 80th anniversary of #atomicbombing of Japan. www.congre.co.jp/ippnw2025/in... #tpnw #hiroshima #nuclearban #publichealth #medical #who #disarmament #nowar #cop #dontnuketheclimate #planetaryhealth #nowarming
Registration opens: Join us 24th @IPPNW world congress in #Nagasaki #Japan coinciding with 80th anniversary of #atomicbombing of Japan.
https://www.congre.co.jp/ippnw2025/index.html

#tpnw #hiroshima #nuclearban #publichealth #medical #who #disarmament #nowar #cop #dontnuketheclimate #planetaryhealth
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Why do we spend so much on #war and comparatively so little on #health, including #malaria? Find out what health benefits using our money differently could bring from Sharma et al. here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The disparities in funding of wars versus elimination of malaria
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Health of the internally displaced residents in relief camps in the conflict zones of Manipur state: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 40 , No 4 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Health of the internally displaced residents in relief camps in the conflict zones of Manipur state
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Adapting to the fallout: the impact of the Sudan war since April 2023 on medical education and medical schools – challenges, evaluations, and emergency recovery plans: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 40 , No 4 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Adapting to the fallout: the impact of the Sudan war since April 2023 on medical education and medical schools – challenges, evaluations, and emergency recovery plans
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Explosive violence in Somalia: a threat to health and development: Medicine, Conflict and Survival: Vol 40 , No 4 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Explosive violence in Somalia: a threat to health and development
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Bimal Khadka @drbimalkhadka.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
.. #Health of the internally displaced residents in relief camps in the #conflict zones of #Manipur state: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #internallydisplaced #publichealth #refugees #india #planetaryhealth #WHO #IPPNW #IDPD #kuki #imphal #meitei #mcs #journal #research #medicine#conflict#doctors
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Health of the internally displaced residents in relief camps in the conflict zones of Manipur state
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Bimal Khadka @drbimalkhadka.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Call for entries- Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize 2025 Winners receive a cash prize, membership to editorial committee, subscription & #publication in MCS Journal. www.medact.org/2024/blogs/2... #research #publicheath #planetaryhealth #tpnw #ippnw #mcs #student #prize #nowar #journal
Call for entries- Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize 2025



 Winners receive a cash prize, membership to editorial committee, subscription & publication @MCS_MedactIPPNW

 

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Bimal Khadka @drbimalkhadka.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
.. #Nobelpeaceprize 2024 Editorial: Thank you #NihonHidankyo www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #nuclearaban #Disarmament #nowar #Japan #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #Hibakushas #Japan79 #publichealth #youth #DontNuketheClimate #nonukes #Oslo #nowarming #ippnw #publichealth
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Thank you Nihon Hidankyo: one light in a world of nuclear backsliding and rising tension
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
In #Nigeria, the need for police reports before providing emergency #medical care for #gunshot victims causes major delays in receiving life-saving medical attention, is this what the #law really says? Discover more and what can be done about it here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Police report requirement for medical emergencies in Nigeria: a threat to Universal Healthcare Coverage
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Medicine, Conflict & Survival @mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
2025 marks the 80th #anniversary of the #atomic-bombing of #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki, Hale et al. tell us what medical students should do to rid the world of #nuclear weapons. Read their thoughts here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Addressing the health threats of nuclear war as United States medical students
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