UCL in the media
More precise understanding of dark energy achieved using AI
A research team led by Dr Niall Jeffrey & Dr Lorne Whiteway (UCL Physics & Astronomy) have used AI techniques to infer the influence and properties of dark energy more precisely from a map of dark and visible matter in the Universe covering the last seven billion years.
How 350 young adults are still getting hooked on smoking every day
UCL research suggests 127,500 people aged between 18 and 25 pick up smoking each year. Dr Sarah Jackson (UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care) said: " ‘Smoking at any age has severe health consequences, but these are particularly pronounced among those who start young.”
Lower abortion limit from 24 weeks, 700 doctors urge MPs
Professor John Wyatt (UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health) said his experience has convinced him that abortion limits needed to be changed. He said: “we are able to keep babies alive from 22 to 23 weeks gestation and many of them survive and live normal and healthy lives".
Online search data `may help spot ovarian cancer cases earlier´
Professor Ingemar Cox (UCL Computer Science) authored a study that suggests online search data may help spot ovarian cancer cases up to a year before GP referrals. Professor Cox said the findings “raise important ethical and privacy concerns, which need to be resolved”.
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British Medical Journal ‘played along with Hamas’, claims leading US doctor
Emeritus Professor David Katz (UCL Infection & Immunity), as editor of the International Journal of Experimental Pathology, comments on accusations by a leading doctor that The British Medical Journal has been “playing along with Hamas” in its coverage of the Gaza war.
Unbottling the history of poison
Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) discusses how people literally got away with murder until chemists developed tests for substances like arsenic.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 ‘The Infinite Monkey Cage’ (from 2 min, 34 sec)
Mending the fracture: India’s healthcare gender gap
Dr Radhika Jain (UCL Global Business School for Health) explains how insurance has opened the door for many women to access health services, but it is “far from a well-rounded solution to gender inequity”.
Patients' anguish as FDA delays decision to approve Eli Lilly's 'life-changing' Alzheimer's drug
Professor Robert Howard (UCL Institute of Mental Health) said: 'The longer [competitor] lecanemab has a licence but donanemab doesn't, the more the available (but limited) US capacity to treat patients with amyloid antibodies will be blocked by the first drug to hit the market.'
Researchers transform Parkinson’s tremors into music
A new music album based on the tremors of people with Parkinson’s has been launched by a team of UCL researchers, led by Dr Christian Lambert (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology), to help provide relief for people with the condition.
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A think tank for the age of Starmer
The launch of a collection of essays, articles and interviews based on a collaboration between the UCL Policy Lab and the 120-year-old Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), ‘Ordinary Hope’, has been called “Starmerism in one room”.