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More than one in four UK healthcare workers have been affected by long Covid with symptoms lasting beyond three months, according to an NHS research programme involving a UCL team.

Scientists at UCL have developed a framework for stress testing how AI chatbots respond to vulnerable users, helping researchers identify weaknesses and test ways of making mental health interactions safer.

Tributes have been paid to an award-winning UCL historian, filmmaker and lecturer in screenwriting who has died aged 61.

A new exhibition offering a fascinating insight into how the now-iconic design of Coventry Cathedral came about after it was bombed in the Second World War has been curated by a UCL researcher.

The definition of autism may have become so wide that it risks confusion and even misdiagnosis, according to a new editorial by UCL Professor Dame Uta Frith, whose pioneering research in the 1960s and 70s lay the foundations for how we understand autism.

One in six UK hospital beds is currently occupied by a person with dementia, at a cost to the taxpayer of £2.8 billion annually, with this number set to increase to one in four by 2040, according to a

The hotel room that famed author Oscar Wilde stayed in while visiting Brighton shortly before his arrest on charges of homosexuality has been identified by archaeologists from UCL Archaeology South-East.

People who live by the coast in midlife are more likely to have worse health, finds a new study in England and Wales led by UCL researchers.

Most Americans favour non-violent measures, such as temporary barricades, over violent measures, like the use of rubber bullets, by border enforcement officers towards undocumented migrants on the southern border, a UCL-led study has found.

The largest clinical trial of long Covid care to date has found that specialist NHS long Covid services may help reduce fatigue, one of the condition’s most common and disabling symptoms.

Artificial intelligence developed by researchers at UCL has revealed a promising combination of cancer treatments that could help patients with locally advanced rectal cancer live longer.

Unusual behaviour in the cells of mothers and babies with preeclampsia may provide new therapeutic targets for the condition, finds a new UCL-led study.

A pioneering experimental treatment for motor neurone disease (MND), developed by UCL spinout Trace Neuroscience, will be trialled in humans as part of a new international clinical programme.

Teaching science and Religious Education (RE) in a more connected way improves students’ engagement with science and boosts interest in STEM careers, UCL researchers find.

Persistent financial hardship accelerates age-related cognitive decline, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.