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A new study led by Dr Sarah Zhang from Alliance Manchester Business School has uncovered how small banks in the United States are reacting to growing concerns about data privacy. The research published in the Journal of Corporate Finance shows that when US states announce plans for stronger data privacy laws, small banks quickly boost their investment in IT before such laws are even passed.

Plain packaging of vape pods reduces young people's interest in trying them, but does not reduce interest among adults, according to a new study led by UCL and King's College London researchers. The study, published in the journal Lancet Regional Health and carried out in collaboration with Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and Brighton and Sussex Medical School researchers, looked at survey responses from 2,770 young people in Great Britain (aged 11-18) and 3,947 adults (18+) in the UK who were shown either branded vape pod packs or standardised packs.

A new study from The University of Manchester has found that a well-known mental health intervention for children may be no more effective than the usual social and emotional learning (SEL) programmes already being taught in primary schools. The research, published in the Journal of Educational Psychology , was led by experts from the Manchester Institute of Education working alongside colleagues from the University of Dundee and Necmettin Erbakan University in Turkey.

Using a decade of satellite data, researchers have identified 85 previously unknown lakes several kilometres under the frozen surface surrounding the South Pole. Hidden beneath the biggest ice mass on Earth, hundreds of subglacial lakes form a crucial part of Antarctica's icy structure, affecting the movement and stability of glaciers, and consequentially influencing global sea level rise.

A link between kidney transplant rejection and changes in the body's lymphatic vessels has been discovered in a UCL-led study. The study, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, examined lymphatic vessels in the body's immune system which help to transport white blood cells and remove waste.

Any amount of alcohol consumption may increase risk of dementia, according to the most comprehensive study of alcohol consumption and dementia risk to date. Led by the University of Oxford, Yale University, and the University of Cambridge, the research challenges previous suggestions that light-to-moderate drinking may have a protective effect against dementia.

Thousands of people with dementia are prescribed powerful medications for longer and at higher doses than recommended, raising concerns about safety and quality of care, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry , found that many people living with dementia are being prescribed antipsychotic medications* for longer periods and at higher doses than National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines advise, highlighting a serious gap between clinical recommendations and everyday medical practice.