UCL in the media
Why the experts don’t pay for branded medication
While there can be small differences between generic and name-brand medications, Dr Sara Garfield (UCL School of Pharmacy) explains that the most important thing is the active ingredient.
Marjorie Taylor Greene becoming isolated in Congress
"Marjorie Taylor Greene represents today's brand of the Republican Party more than moderates like Mitt Romney. Trump has remade the GOP in his image, but it's fringe politicians like MTG that carry water for him in Washington." - Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science)
Malaria warning to Brit holidaymakers
"It’s very important that British travellers are aware of malaria cases. Even if someone previously lived in a malarial area and had built up some immunity, that immunity is lost after about a year," warns Professor Bryony Franklin (UCL School of Pharmacy).
Travelling Brits warned against malaria spike
The primary driver for malaria cases detected in the UK is the number of Brits who travel abroad, states Professor François Balloux (UCL Biosciences), as health chiefs warn malaria levels in UK holidaymakers are at their highest for 20 years.
Shortage of HPV vaccines leads to millions of girls in Africa missing out
Professor Monica Lakhanpaul (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) discusses the dangers of plane turbulence as well as the shortage of HPV vaccines in Africa, which could lead to ten million girls in some of the poorest parts of the world missing out on the jab.
UCL signs up to ground-breaking sustainable research agreement
UCL has signed up to a ground-breaking new agreement aimed at making research more environmentally sustainable.
Intense scrutiny heaped on Joe Biden's Israel policy
Anything Joe Biden says at the moment on Israel-Palestine is going to be "parsed, scrutinised, reinterpreted, taken out of context, and pulled through the wringer by critics a million different ways", explains Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science).
Why do some people have a poor sense of direction?
The navigation game and citizen science project called Sea Hero Quest, developed by Professor Hugo Spiers (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences), is referenced by Professor Seán Commins of Maynooth University as a way to assess someone's navigational abilities.
‘Weak’ hush money case may be only chance to stop Trump before election
“There’s always a risk that it turns the courtroom into a spectacle, with the judge, the prosecutor, or the defence playing to the camera,” says Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science), adding: “That’s especially true in a case like Trump’s."
Using AI to spot ships smuggling Russian oil
“It’s very difficult for humans to search large areas for small things, like a needle in a haystack sort of problem, but obviously deep learning [AI] is really good for exactly that sort of thing," says Dr Ollie Ballinger (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis).