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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.

The year 2023 has been one of innovation, growth and achievement across UCL, with the launch of the new UCL East campus, a visit from the Queen, and the accolade of being named University of the Year by the Times and Sunday Times.

A new pilot scheme to monitor infections in care homes across England is being co-led by UCL researchers.

Polygenic risk scores, which estimate a person’s disease risk based on thousands or millions of common genetic variants, perform poorly in screening and prediction of common diseases such as heart disease, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

A new study involving UCL that aims to inform mathematical models of sexually transmitted infections shows how the number of sexual partners we have changes as we age, with some surprising findings.