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Almost 320,000 Nigerian doctors’ strike over pay and arrears heads into third week; thousands of Danish nurses reject pay offer and walk out; Sunday strikes at ScotRail, Scotland demand equal overtime rates with drivers

ScotRail’s Sunday pay strikes continue into seventh month joined by other rail disputes; Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency strike in Wales over COVID safety ongoing since April; Firefighters in Gironde, France strike for more resources as they share vehicles with ambulance service; Nigerian doctors’ pay stoppage continues with some owed 19 months’ arrears

Strike by Iranian oil workers spreads amid rising wave of protests and stoppages The strike by Iranian oil contract workers is about to enter its fifth week. It has spread to 105 refineries, complexes and companies across 35 Iranian cities. The contract workers walked out over low pay and poor working conditions. They make around $300 a month, and are demanding to be paid around $500. A defence committee to support the strikers issued a statement on Sunday, appealing to other workers to come ou...

Strikes in France against power company EDF over privatisation, by interns at hospitals against long working hours and at national rail company over pay and conditions; strike continues at Fiat Plastic in Serbia against pay cuts after workers form own union; German bus drivers in Rhineland-Palatinate on indefinite pay strike; further UK stoppages at Jacobs Douwe Egberts against “fire and Rehire” and Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency over COVID safety

Operating theatre nurses’ national one-day pay strike in France; Port Ravenna dockers in Italy ready to strike to block transport of military hardware for use against Gaza; national warning strikes by retail workers across Germany over pay; Stoppages at some UK schools and Liverpool University

Are antibody cocktails the key to COVID-19 treatment? Thought LeadersDr. Natalia FreundAssistant Professor, Sackler School of MedicineTel Aviv University In this interview, News-Medical speaks to Dr. Natalia Freund about her latest research into COVID-19, and how most people are capable of producing neutralizing antibodies against the virus. What provoked your research into the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? When the pandemic hit Israel, every aspect of our lives has changed, and therefore like man...

Chris is currently Professor of Food Safety and founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast. He serves as Pro Vice Chancellor for the university and is responsible for the Medical and Life Sciences Faculty. He has published more than 300 peer review articles, many of them relating to the detection and control of agriculture, food and environmental related contaminants. His main research interests are in the development of innovative techniques to provide ea...