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An estimated 1.6 million adults in England, Wales and Scotland used drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro to help lose weight between early 2024 and early 2025, according to a new study by UCL researchers.

People prescribed the new generation of weight loss drugs may not receive sufficient nutritional guidance to support safe and sustainable weight loss, leaving them vulnerable to nutritional deficiencies and muscle loss, say experts at UCL and the University of Cambridge.

A Scottish patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a clinical trial that aims to improve outcomes for those having specialist heart surgery.

People prescribed the new generation of weight loss drugs may not receive sufficient nutritional guidance to support safe and sustainable weight loss, leaving them vulnerable to nutritional deficiencies and muscle loss, say experts at UCL and the University of Cambridge.

University of Manchester researchers are to trial the groundbreaking linkage of historical step counts from patients' smart devices to their healthcare data in a bid to transform our understanding of how knee replacement surgery affects them.

Professor Max Telford (UCL Biosciences) examines how the earliest fossils of complex animals, which appeared suddenly in rocks that were 538 million years old, evolved.

A new development in wireless sensing technology which can reliably screen for five common pulmonary diseases could lead to breakthrough new forms of touch-free diagnostics.

A drug mimicking the hormone progesterone has anti-cancer activity when used together with conventional anti-oestrogen treatment for women with breast cancer, a new Cambridge-led trial has found. In the two-week window that we looked at, adding a progestin made the anti-oestrogen treatment more effective at slowing tumour growth.

Artificial intelligence (AI), using a simple blood test combined with standard brain images has, for the first time, been able to identify two biologically distinct types of multiple sclerosis (MS), in research led by UCL and Queen Square Analytics, a UCL spin out company. For the study, published in the journal Brain , researchers looked at blood levels of a special protein called serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL), which indicates the level of nerve cell damage and acts as a useful measure of how active the disease is.

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.

Manchester researchers have developed a systematic methodology to test whether AI can think logically in biomedical research, helping to ensure safer, more reliable applications in healthcare innovation. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in biomedical research, questions remain about how well these systems can reason logically with complex scientific information.

In an era where AI plays a major role in accountancy, Manchester researchers are exploring how generative AI is changing professional decision-making and developing a framework to help accountants balance efficiency with human expertise.

Manchester researchers are using AI to map shifting supply chains in the global battery industry, revealing how technology, policy and geopolitics shape resilience and strategic decision-making.

Writing for The Conversation, Professor Eamon McCrory (UCL Psychology and Languages) PhD candidate Ritika Chokhani (UCL Division of Psychiatry) explain how "social thinning" has reduced social options for many young people.

The week after the autumn clock change is associated with a modest reduction in demand for NHS services for sleep disorders, cardiovascular disease, anxiety, depression, and psychiatric conditions in England, finds a study led by UCL and University of Bristol researchers. However, there is little evidence that the spring clock change has any short term effect on the number of health conditions, say the authors of the paper, published in the Christmas issue of  The BMJ.

Highlights included breakthroughs in Huntington's disease, cancer and sight loss, as well as the first ever views of the south pole of the Sun and life under an Antarctic ice shelf January The year began, as it did in 2023, with a visit from Sir Keir Starmer.