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COVID-19 in Palestine: Creativity Under Coronavirus – Mondoweiss
Despite being been stuck living between COVID-19 and the Israeli occupation, Palestinians have responded to the pandemic by using innovation and creativity as a way to help their communities adapt to the crisis around them.
Remdesivir has very little effect on Covid-19 mortality, WHO finds
Results from gold-standard trial described as sobering, as drug found not to improve survival rates
Research from Oxford Brookes
Dr Cynthia Mulrow in interview with Dr Iain Chalmers
100 JLA PSPs: A chance to reflect
To mark the completion of 100 JLA PSPs, Katherine Cowan looks back on her involvement with the James Lind Alliance since 2008.
News and publications | James Lind Alliance
The latest news from our PSPs, collaborations between patients, carers and clinicians to prioritise research questions.
Catching golden opportunities to create public health evidence as they fly by...
Dr Helen Walters, an NIHR Public Health Consultant Advisor, introduces four newly launched public health research teams, contracted under the PHIRST scheme, to enable local authorities to rapidly evaluate interventions aiming to improve health and...
'Inshallah': Biden uses Arabic expression over release of Trump's tax returns
No foreign policy discussions during the first US presidential debate, in which candidates traded insults and spoke over each other
Israel’s war industry embraces Emirates with open arms
Palestinians call for a boycott of Emirati university.
How to develop a Covid-19 vaccine - MoreTrials -
The Good Clinical Trials Collaborative have set out the key principles that underpin the effective development of a Covid-19 vaccine: Safe and ethical Scientifically sound Context-specific Collaborative and harmonised Trustworthy and engaged with...
Iain Chalmers
How to develop a Covid-19 vaccine
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Bank of England: stop funding climate chaos
Bank of England holds the key to slamming the brakes on climate chaos -- sign now to demand it denies billions to polluters and fossil fuel companies.
Iain Chalmers
Lives destroyed by extreme weather events, ice caps melting, forests burning -- when will @BankOfEngland stop funding #climate chaos? Sign petition
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MDMD | My Death, My Decision | UK right to die organisation campaigning for legalised assisted dying
My Death, My Decision (MDMD) - a right to die organisation campaigning for the option of medically assisted suicide (assisted dying) in UK.
Oxford archaeologists help achieve access to satellite images of Israel and the Palestinian territories - Cherwell
Two Oxford archaeologists have contributed to the declassification of satellite images of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, with “huge implications” for visual access to the areas. A 24-year-old US prohibition has restricted access to...
Iain Chalmers
Oxford archaeologists help achieve access to satellite images of Israel and the Palestinian territories cherwell.org/2020/09/11/oxf… via @Cherwell_Online
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How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping
For Nicholas DeVito, Georgia Richards and Peter Inglesby, custom webscrapers have driven their research — and their collaborations.
RIP Denis Goldberg – A True Jewish Hero of the Anti-Apartheid struggle who was mourned by millions and hated by the Zionists
Sentenced life imprisonment alongside Mandela at the 1963-4 Rivonia to Trial, Goldberg’s death passed unnoticed in Israel where opposition ...
Palestinians in Jerusalem are forced to demolish their own homes.
The Israeli municipality in Jerusalem has issues demolition orders for Palestinian residents. In order to avoid costly fines, families are forced to tear down their own homes.
Lost land: Nakba survivors recall rural struggle in Mandate-era Palestine
Agriculture was central to Palestinian society before the creation of the state of Israel - and British colonial powers knew it
Extended use of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic - Thermal conditioning and spray-on surface disinfection
The current COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in globally constrained supplies for face masks and personal protective equipment (PPE). Production capacity is limited in many countries and the future course of the pandemic will likely continue with...
Iain Chalmers
Extended use of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic - Thermal conditioning and spray-on surface disinfection
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Margaret McCartney: We need better evidence on non-drug interventions for covid-19 - The BMJ
Non drug interventions should be based on evidence. We need to generate this to inform the covid-19 and future pandemics, argues Margaret McCartney Almost 1300 controlled trials have been registered [...]More...
Massacres as a weapon of ethnic cleansing during the Nakba – Mondoweiss
Salman Abu Sitta shows how massacres carried out by Zionist forces between April 1 to May 14, 1948 were pivotal in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Reclaiming The PLO, Re-Engaging Youth - Al-Shabaka
How can the PLO maintain accountability as both a national liberation movement and governing body? Read our full-length report.