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Recent research led by UCL has identified a second major cause of ‘Startle disease’, which causes seizures in babies in response to loud noises and unexpected movements. Read: BBC News

UCL School of Pharmacy is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Duncan Craig as its new Director.

From 1988 to 1999 Professor Craig held a range of posts from Teaching and Research Assistant to Reader at the School of Pharmacy.

Researchers at UCL and Harvard have found that we punish cheats only when they end up better off than us, in a study that challenges the notion that punishment is motivated by revenge.

Scientists have found that Native American populations — from Canada to the southern tip of Chile — arose from at least three migrations, with the majority descended entirely from a single group of First American migrants that crossed over through Beringia, a land bridge between Asia and America that existed during the ice ages, more than 15,000 years ago.

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The first evaluation of a new system that can provide electronic transmission of prescriptions from GP practices to community pharmacies is published today in an interim report commissioned on behalf of NHS Connecting for Health Evaluation programme.