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Nature 415, 247 (17 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415247b

Protests mark threatened closure of medical school

Alison Abbott

Clinical researchers have responded with alarm to a clause in the new Berlin state government's coalition agreement that pledges to close the medical faculty of the Free University and to remove university status from its Benjamin Franklin Clinic.Over 4,500 researchers, clinicians, patients and members of the public demonstrated against the closure last Friday.