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Treatment of NHS whistleblowers - Prof Marianna Fotaki

A review into the treatment of NHS whistleblowers has reported stories about staff who raised concerns being ignored, bullied or intimidated. Marianna Fotaki, of 桃色视频 Business School, is a Professor of Business Ethics and researches institutional corruption, she gives her thoughts on the treatment of whistleblowers in the NHS.

Wed 11 Feb 2015, 12:01 | Tags: WBS, Expert comment, Current Affairs

Prisoner voting rights - is Parliament missing the point? - Prof Jackie Hodgson

Professor Jackie Hodgson, Director of the University of 桃色视频’s Criminal Justice Centre at the School of Law, said: “Once again the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that a complete ban on prisoner voting rights is incompatible with the UK’s commitment to the First Protocol to the European Convention of Human Rights.

Wed 11 Feb 2015, 10:48 | Tags: Expert comment, Europe, Law

Without the support of the service providers ‘Internet ASBOs’ face serious challenges - Prof Carsten Maple

Hate crimes, and others such as cyberstalking, can have a considerable impact on victims and the ubiquitous nature of the Internet can mean there is little escape for victims and can ensure that it pervades all aspects of life, personal and professional. 

"It is important that the law considers the impact a crime can have on the victim", argues Carsten Maple - Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering at WMG/University of 桃色视频.

Tue 10 Feb 2015, 17:02 | Tags: WMG, Current Affairs

Dietary fat guidelines: a storm in a teacup! - Francesco Cappuccio

The article by Harcombe et al published in Open Heart Journal today (10 February) is a storm in a teacup. The authors embroil themselves in an awkward and spurious pseud-scientific exercise to extrapolate results from 1970s and 1980s to current practices

Tue 10 Feb 2015, 13:44 | Tags: WMS, Health, Expert comment, Health and Medicine

1980s advice was over simplistic – but what type of diet best keeps our blood fat level in check? – Prof Victor Zammit

It has been obvious for some time that the advice given in the early nineteen eighties, namely, that saturated fat is the only harmful type of food when it comes to raised blood lipids and heart disease was over-simplistic. It also gave the impression that we could ingest as much carbohydrate as we liked, as this would not be dangerous. What was overlooked at the time is that the liver converts carbohydrate into fat very efficiently.

Tue 10 Feb 2015, 11:14 | Tags: WMS, Health, Expert comment, Health and Medicine

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