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Climate change has prolonged the pollen season by up to a fortnight compared to the 1990s, creating problems for hay fever sufferers, a new report involving UCL academics has found.

Healthy, sustainable school meals could cut undernourishment, reduce diet-related deaths and significantly lower environmental impacts, according to a new modelling study led by a UCL researcher.

The annual number of preventable heat-related deaths globally has soared to more than half a million, a UCL-led report says.

A baby’s makeup of gut bacteria – their microbiome – which starts to form as soon as they are born, helps protect against viral infections later in childhood finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

People would be encouraged to eat more healthy and sustainable diets if Value Added Tax (VAT) rates were set based on health and environmental considerations, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Providing tuberculosis (TB) patients with advice and money can help them to finish their treatment and recover, finds a new study involving UCL researchers.

A new £8.2 million centre to unite England’s world-class diagnostics expertise and accelerate the development and application of tools to improve disease diagnosis will be co-led by a UCL researcher.

The number of children under the age of 18 who are estimated to have experienced the death of a parent or co-residing grandparent caregiver in the United States surged to nearly three million by 2021, finds a new study involving UCL researchers.

Beans and peas rank as the best meat and milk replacement from nutritional, health, environmental, and cost perspectives, finds a new study by researchers at UCL and the University of Oxford.

People around the world are facing record-breaking health threats because of climate inaction, including continued investment in fossil fuels and lagging funding for action to protect health, finds the latest Lancet Countdown report led by UCL researchers.

Countries affected by severe climate change may also have a higher prevalence of violence against women, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Details of two new courses to help individuals before and during the menopause have been published as part of the launch of the UK’s first menopause education and support programme, created by UCL researchers.

Newborn babies are born with a type of bacterium in their gut that could be used to develop new personalised infant therapeutic probiotics, finds a new study involving UCL researchers.

Two new interdisciplinary research projects investigating how to prepare for epidemics and volcanic eruption are receiving funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

A major new research hub led by UCL and the University of Cambridge aims to harness quantum technology to improve early diagnosis and treatment of disease.