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Diabetes drugs that may soon be prescribed more widely in England could save thousands of lives each year, suggests a new study by researchers at UCL and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

A new spinout company from UCL, King’s College London, and a coalition of NHS Foundation Trusts will advance digital transformation at NHS organisations and international healthcare providers to improve patient care, patient safety and population health and research.

Some users of popular fitness and calorie counting apps experience shame, disappointment and demotivation, potentially undermining their health and wellbeing, according to a new study led by researchers at UCL and Loughborough University.

Using a wood or coal burning stove or open fire at home may lead to a decline in lung function, suggests a new analysis from UCL researchers.

An artificial intelligence (AI) model is being trained on a set of NHS data for 57 million people in England, from which personal information has been stripped away, in a world-first pilot project run by researchers at UCL and King’s College London.

Nearly 700 care homes have joined a research project co-led by a UCL team that will monitor infections such as Covid-19, flu and norovirus to reduce the impact of outbreaks and improve quality of life for residents.

The NHS could prevent thousands more heart attacks and strokes every year by offering everyone in the UK aged 50 and over a single “polypill” combining a statin and three blood pressure lowering drugs, according to academics from UCL.

The UK’s new legal requirement for folic acid to be added to non-wholemeal wheat flour does not go far enough and a bolder policy would prevent hundreds more birth defects each year, say researchers including UCL’s Professor Sir Nicholas Wald.

An England-wide study of 331 rare diseases in over 58 million people co-led by UCL researchers has identified eight rare diseases that carry significantly increased risks for Covid-19-related mortality in fully vaccinated individuals.

The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, announced a new plan for artificial intelligence (AI) to boost growth and living standards and revolutionise public services in a major speech at our UCL East campus today.

A potentially life-changing heart condition, dilated cardiomyopathy, can be caused by the cumulative influence of hundreds or thousands of genes and not just by a single “aberrant” genetic variant, as was previously thought, finds a new study co-led by researchers at UCL.

Bed availability is a “significant” factor in determining whether or not a patient is admitted to a critical care bed after surgery, questioning whether some are getting the care they need, a new study from researchers at UCL and UCLH has found for the first time.

Pain may be the most prevalent and severe symptom reported by individuals with long Covid, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

Proteins in the blood could predict the onset of many diverse diseases, according to a new study involving UCL researchers.

The UK government’s failure to fortify all flour and rice with the vitamin folic acid “will result in more deaths and birth defects every year that could have been prevented,” argues UCL’s Professor Sir Nicholas Wald in an opinion piece for The BMJ.