UCL in the media
EU migrants
Professor Christian Dustmann (UCL Economics) comments on how migrants to the UK are 33% less likely to claim benefits than UK natives.
Listen: BBC Radio 5 live 'Sunday Breakfast' (from 2hrs2mins), More: New York Times, Daily Telegraph, BBC NewsFears for the elderly under new NHS drug policy
New proposals for NHS drug policy have been criticised by Professor David Taylor (UCL School of Pharmacy), who said all patients should be valued equally by NICE.
Read: Daily Telegraph, More: Daily MailMRI scan 'the best way to spot prostate cancer'
Professor Mark Emberton (UCL Research Department of Urology) has said that men with suspected prostate cancer should be given an MRI scan as a first option.
Read: The Times (£)Defusing dementia: Why is risk of Alzheimer's falling?
Liam Drew (UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research) looks at how emerging research has indicated that the dementia rate in developed countries is falling and what this could mean for future generations.
Read: New ScientistLegal aid: Crime doesn't pay
Professor Richard Moorhead (UCL Faculty of Laws) comments on how cuts to legal aid may lead to barristers going into partnerships with solicitors.
Read: The EconomistEmerging Woman Architect of the Year shortlist announced
Daisy Froud, Hannah Corlett and Yeoryia Manolopoulou (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) have all been shortlisted for Architects' Journal's Emerging Woman Architect of the Year award.
Read: Architects JournalOrkney - hot spot of the Stone Age
Professor Michael Parker Pearson (UCL Institute of Archaeology) describes Orkney as "a place of synthesis, where the Neolithic worlds came together" in response to new archaeological findings.
Read: Financial Times, More: ScienceFructose: the bitter sweet sugar
Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) discusses the structure of store-bought sugar and how it is absorbed by the body as glucose and fructose.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Fructose: the bitter sweet sugar' (from 3mins)Ring-fenced science budget under threat
Russell Group vice-chancellors, led by Professor Michael Arthur (UCL President & Provost), pressed David Willetts on the future of science research funding at a Universities UK meeting.
Read: THENeuroscience and education
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) comments on what neuroscience can tell us about engaging the attention of children so that they want to learn.
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