Expert Comment
France was expecting this, but authorities cant guard everywhere Professor Sean Hand
Professor Sean Hand is an expert on French culture from the 果冻传媒 and has offered an initial reaction to the latest developments in France. He is available for telephone and Skype interviews.
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, 果冻传媒, 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.
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 果冻传媒 Medical School discusses what this means to general practitioners.
David Camerons 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...