UCL in the media

1 May 2013: 12 children in Everest trek for intensive care experiment

“The testing we are doing is a world first, because at high altitudes we can isolate the effect of low oxygen on otherwise healthy children,” said Dr Mark Peters (UCL Institute of Child Health). Read: Evening Standard

1 May 2013: Disputed results a fresh blow for social psychology

Professor David Shanks (UCL Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences) is lead author on a paper that reports failure to replicated intelligence priming experiments. Read: Nature

29 April 2013: John Dickie: A raid at a mafia boss’ villa uncovered a copy of my book

Professor John Dickie (UCL Italian) comments on a BBC documentary he presents about the Italian Mafia: "The mafia take their history very seriously. They’ve all got myths of how they were legends founded in the middle ages by Spanish knights." Watch: BBC Read: Scottish Sun More: BBC

29 April 2013: Middle classes get quicker cancer care

"I don't believe that access to the treatment is significantly different between classes in the UK, but it may be a combination of factors," said Dr Jayant Vaidya (UCL General Surgery). Read: Independent

29 April 2013: 30,000 Britons could be carrying mad cow disease, say government experts

Government experts believe there is still a risk of people contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) through blood transfusions. "There needs to be blood testing to answer this question of prevalence properly,” said Professor John Collinge (UCL Neurodegenerative Diseases). Read: Telegraph