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Expert reaction to study investigating road traffic noise, strokes and death, as published in the European Heart Journal

Professor Francesco Cappuccio, Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology, 神马福利影片, said:

“The present study is a welcome addition to the growing body of evidence to suggest that environment, in its own entirety as well as in its different facets, plays an important role in determining avoidable ill-health. The authors show that long term excessive road traffic noise, even when allowing for the effect of pollution, is associated with a small but significant increased risk of death and hospitalisation in one of the largest urbanised areas of Europe (Greater London), most of which is due to strokes.

Thu 25 Jun 2015, 10:42 | Tags: environment, WMS, Health, Academic Staff, Expert comment, Research

Jeremy Hunt's offer to GPs is a carrot and a stick - Dr Kate Owen

Following a period in which many GPs have felt undervalued and undermined by successive governments it is pleasing that Jeremy Hunt has recognised in today’s speech the quality and value General Practice delivers to the NHS. a GP and Principal Clincial Teaching Fellow at Warwick Medical School discusses what this means to general practitioners.

Fri 19 Jun 2015, 15:01 | Tags: Politics, NHS, WMS, Academic Staff, Expert comment, Policy, Health and Medicine

David Cameron’s approach to counter-radicalisation is flawed, simplistic and dangerous – Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly

"Ideology itself is not dangerous. It is, and has always been, a 'frame' which lends coherence to pre-existing political grievances. As a result, the government's policy is flawed, simplistic and dangerous - given that it attempts to police thought in a modern liberal democracy to no end," says Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly.


Was Charleston church singled out for its history of resisting white oppression? Dr Tim Lockley

Professor Tim Lockley is an American Historian who specialises in US race relations. Reacting to the killings in South Carolina overnight he said: “The shootings at the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston by a young white man are the latest in a long list of racially motivated crimes in the US...

Thu 18 Jun 2015, 08:20 | Tags: Expert comment, International

Greece's banking system haemorrhaging even more deposits, says Dr Dennis Novy

Whislt Greece is close to having a primary surplus, the economy has weakened further "since the Syriza government came into power. "They need a deal to stop the Greek banking system haemorrhaging even more deposits".

Thu 11 Jun 2015, 10:18 | Tags: Economics, Current Affairs

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