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UK’s first AIDS victims lobby government in run up to World AIDS Day
Imagine being an NHS hospital patient requiring blood products and the treatment you received gave you HIV, as well as other serious contaminants, causing death and lifelong debilitating illness. That is what happened to man hundreds of haemophiliacs in the UK more...
Abcodia marks Lung and Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
My client, the world leading biomarker validation company, Abcodia, is marking November’s Lung and Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month by offering access to longitudinal serum samples for organizations and academic teams seeking to validate their biomarkers to improve...
The good that must come out of Rotherham’s foster kids scandal
When I heard about the Rotherham foster kids scandal where three Eastern Euopean children were removed from their supportive and stable environment because their foster parents were members of UKIP and deemed racist, it reminded me of a similar story I wrote on my...
Women bishops are a refreshing the executive board of the Church of England
I always think of Dr Carrie Pemberton Ford when the subject of women bishops is raised. I worked with her once to promote CHASTE - Churches Alert Against Sex Trafficking across Europe. Feeling disappointed after the latest blow for women bishops in the Church of...
Mike Lynch cancels Cambridge lecture
I had been hoping to meet Dr Mike Lynch tomorrow evening at an innovation lecture in Cambridge, our local technology hero blazing a trail for Silicon Fen with his astonishingly successful software company Autonomy which was sold to Hewlett Packard in 2011 with his...
Let’s Adopt a Better Way
This week is National Adoption Week, but you would scarcely know it unless this is a topic which interests you personally as there has been virtually no national media coverage about it, especially compared to last year's amazing headlines featuring campaigner...
Let’s all vote for Nadine on “I’m a Celebrity….”
Shall we all do what Eric Pickles says, and that is to vote for Nadine Dorries so she can totally indulge in kangaroo's goolies, washed down with a bucketful of maggots, and all other jungle delights during her stint on I'm a Celebrity. To me, her appearance on this...
Cambridge ideas change the world …
I love the simple Cambridge Network strapline which states, "Cambridge ideas change the world". Thanks to the cluster of innovative technology and biomedical companies based in and around the university city, and the brilliant minds behind many of them, this continues...
How many MPs divorce due to work?
About four years ago I was researching the working life of women MPs and asked if data was available about marriage breakdowns resulting from their incredible workload and long hours. I wanted to know if these figures existed for both men and women MPs and was told it...