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Health - Psychology - 26.11.2024
Researchers warn 360,000 patients in the UK risk being ’trapped’ on antipsychotics
Researchers are warning against the increasing use of antipsychotics, particularly in patients without ongoing psychiatrist review or physical health monitoring to detect early signs of heart disease and diabetes.

Health - Life Sciences - 25.11.2024
Brain shrinkage associated with Alzheimer’s therapies shows effectiveness rather than harm
A loss of brain volume associated with new immunotherapies for Alzheimer's disease may be caused by the removal of amyloid plaques, rather than the loss of neurons or brain tissue, finds a study led by UCL researchers.

Psychology - Health - 25.11.2024
Treating bullying as everyone’s problem reduces incidence in primary schools
Treating bullying as everyone's problem can reduce bullying by up to 13%, finds new research. The largest trial of its kind in the UK has shown how a low-cost, structured, anti-bullying programme can improve social dynamics in primary schools and reduce victimisation.

Innovation - Health - 25.11.2024
Experience the future of immersive technologies on campus
Experience the future of immersive technologies on campus

Health - Environment - 22.11.2024
Addressing medicine's gender data gap and microbes in space: News from Imperial
Addressing medicine’s gender data gap and microbes in space: News from Imperial
Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.

Innovation - Health - 22.11.2024
UCL, AIIMS New Delhi and IIT Delhi launch partnership to scale up med tech innovation
UCL, AIIMS New Delhi and IIT Delhi launch partnership to scale up med tech innovation

Health - Life Sciences - 22.11.2024
Weather warnings in a changing climate to be explored thanks to Wellcome Award

Health - Pharmacology - 22.11.2024
Glox Therapeutics secures £1m in PACE grant funding to progress work on antibiotics that target drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria

Innovation - Health - 22.11.2024
Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology visits UCL
Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology visits UCL

Health - Pharmacology - 21.11.2024
The UK is no longer offering COVID vaccines to pregnant women - that might be a bad idea
The UK is no longer offering COVID vaccines to pregnant women - that might be a bad idea

Health - Pharmacology - 21.11.2024
Anthony Harnden appointed as the new Chair of the MHRA
Anthony Harnden appointed as the new Chair of the MHRA

Health - Pharmacology - 21.11.2024
Genetic test for deafness in newborns to be trialled across the UK
Genetic test for deafness in newborns to be trialled across the UK

Health - Psychology - 21.11.2024
’Pregnancy loss’ considered more acceptable than ’miscarriage’ by most patients
Clinical language used around pregnancy loss can negatively affect patients' mental health and exacerbate their grief and trauma, and should be personalised where possible, according to research led by a UCL academic. In the first study of its kind, published today, social scientists from UCL, led by Dr Beth Malory (UCL English Language & Literature), gathered data from 391 participants from across the UK with lived experience of pregnancy loss to provide guidance for mass communication around loss.

Research Management - Health - 20.11.2024
More than a dozen of Manchester's researchers ranked in global top one percent most influential academics
More than a dozen of Manchester’s researchers ranked in global top one percent most influential academics

Social Sciences - Health - 20.11.2024
Scotland’s National Suicide Prevention Advisory Group welcomes Prof Christine Goodall as new chair

Health - Pharmacology - 20.11.2024
University of Manchester receives $1.3 million international donation to fund new cancer research PhD
University of Manchester receives $1.3 million international donation to fund new cancer research PhD

Health - 20.11.2024
Lived Experience Academy brings a new approach to research
Our researchers are helping to put people with lived experience of mental health distress at the forefront of health and social care research.

Health - Campus - 19.11.2024
World Leading orthopaedic surgeon joins University of Manchester as Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
World Leading orthopaedic surgeon joins University of Manchester as Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Health - Life Sciences - 19.11.2024
New gene editing therapy for heart condition is safe and effective
New gene editing therapy for heart condition is safe and effective
A new type of therapy that 'edits' a gene in patients with a rare heart condition has been shown to be safe and effective, according to research from UCL and the Royal Free Hospital.

Health - Social Sciences - 19.11.2024
Teenage truancy rates rise in English-speaking countries
Truancy rates have risen faster in developed English-speaking countries since the Covid-19 pandemic than in non-English-speaking countries, according to a new working paper by UCL researchers. Teenage girls are also increasingly more likely to skip school than boys across Anglophone countries. In 2022, 26% of all'Year 11 pupils in England reported playing truant at least once in the last fortnight.

Health - Event - 18.11.2024
Medical student awarded scholarship for next generation of healthcare leaders
Medical student awarded scholarship for next generation of healthcare leaders

Health - Life Sciences - 18.11.2024
HRH Duchess of Edinburgh visits UCL eye health lab

Pharmacology - Health - 17.11.2024
Curing cancer: finding new ways to identify and treat cancer cells
Curing cancer: finding new ways to identify and treat cancer cells
Understanding how cancer cells grow and change could be the key to disrupting how they proliferate. Dr Griselda Awanis is using a new tracking technology to understand just this.

Health - Life Sciences - 15.11.2024
Air pollution and medical networks: News from Imperial
Air pollution and medical networks: News from Imperial

Health - Life Sciences - 15.11.2024
Calls to increase support for stroke survivors
Care for stroke survivors urgently needs to focus on non-motor skill outcomes like fatigue, anxiety and reduced social participation to improve survivors' quality of life and minimise care needs, according to a new study by researchers at UCL and UCLH. The study, published in the Lancet Regional Health - Europe, is the first to comprehensively capture the wide-ranging impacts of non-motor skill outcomes in a large group of patients.

Innovation - Health - 15.11.2024
Funding boost for spin-out's fight against childhood cancer
Funding boost for spin-out’s fight against childhood cancer

Life Sciences - Health - 14.11.2024
Kidney researcher wins University of Manchester 3Rs prize
A researcher from The University of Manchester has bagged a prize for developing a powerful way to minimize suffering in animals when studying kidney disease.

Life Sciences - Health - 14.11.2024
RVC to provide world-class training to more students thanks to government funding

Music - Health - 14.11.2024
Researchers and the Royal Opera House combine for 'radically different' installation
Researchers and the Royal Opera House combine for ’radically different’ installation

Health - Pharmacology - 14.11.2024
UCL Prize Lecture: 'It's a very exciting time to be a vaccinologist'
UCL Prize Lecture: ’It’s a very exciting time to be a vaccinologist’

Health - Pharmacology - 13.11.2024
Diabetes rate doubles to 800 million adults, but over half are untreated
The total number of adults living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes in the world has surpassed 800 million, according to new Imperial-led research. The authors say there is an urgent need to improve early detection and effective treatment of diabetes in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs), where cases have drastically increased since 1990.

Health - 13.11.2024
New resources support dating app users and health practitioners

Life Sciences - Health - 13.11.2024
Potential motor neurone disease treatment receives £78 million funding boost

Health - Career - 13.11.2024
First UCL Professor of Nursing appointed
First UCL Professor of Nursing appointed

Health - Pharmacology - 13.11.2024
University of Glasgow scientists awarded £1.5m to find better and kinder cancer treatments

Health - Politics - 13.11.2024
UCL academics join forces with policymakers to roadmap public services for the 21st century

Health - Innovation - 12.11.2024
£1m to advance MintNeuro's transformative semiconductor tech for neural implants
£1m to advance MintNeuro’s transformative semiconductor tech for neural implants

Health - Pharmacology - 12.11.2024
UCL spinout Autolus gains US approval for cancer therapy
Autolus Therapeutics, a UCL spinout company, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, for a next-generation CAR-T cell therapy, developed to treat adults with an aggressive blood cancer.

Health - 12.11.2024
Study into youth worker services for young people with long-term conditions launched
Study into youth worker services for young people with long-term conditions launched
Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHP) researchers at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), in partnership with The University of Manchester (UoM) are leading UK first research into youth worker services for young people with long-term conditions (LTCs). Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the research will investigate how current youth worker services for children and young people with physical or mental health LTCs are organised, provided and experienced across the UK.

Health - Life Sciences - 12.11.2024
New hope to prevent blindness in children with rare genetic disease
New hope to prevent blindness in children with rare genetic disease
A new treatment that could prevent blindness in children with the CLN2 type Batten disease has been trialled by clinicians and researchers at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

Health - 11.11.2024
UK-Sri Lanka partnership tackles life-threatening multiple long-term conditions
UK-Sri Lanka partnership tackles life-threatening multiple long-term conditions
Experts will create an integrated care pathway to standardise care and improve the patient experience using digital technologies.

Health - Pharmacology - 11.11.2024
Pandemic preparedness cannot rely on vaccine development alone
Pandemic preparedness cannot rely on vaccine development alone

Social Sciences - Health - 11.11.2024
New study will explore how voluntary organisations support young people at risk of suicide
The role of voluntary organisations in providing support to young people at risk of self-harm or suicide is to be investigated in a new research partnership.

Environment - Health - 11.11.2024
Gender inequality ingrained in global climate negotiations, say researchers
Gender inequality ingrained in global climate negotiations, say researchers
Climate governance is dominated by men, yet the health impacts of the climate crisis often affect women, girls, and gender-diverse people disproportionately, argue researchers ahead of the upcoming 29th United Nations Climate Summit (COP29) in Azerbaijan.

Health - Psychology - 08.11.2024
Treating bullying as everyone’s problem reduces incidence in primary schools
The largest trial of its kind in the UK has shown how a low-cost, structured, anti-bullying programme can improve social dynamics in primary schools and reduce victimisation.

Health - Pharmacology - 08.11.2024
Cancer therapy with potential to transform lupus treatment delivered in UK first
Cancer therapy with potential to transform lupus treatment delivered in UK first

Life Sciences - Health - 08.11.2024
Mace appointed to complete UCL's world-class neuroscience centre
Mace appointed to complete UCL’s world-class neuroscience centre

Health - Life Sciences - 07.11.2024
Spotlight on... Tim Young
Spotlight on... Tim Young

Health - Sport - 07.11.2024
An extra five minutes of exercise per day could help to lower blood pressure
Adding small amounts of exercise into daily routine, such as climbing stairs or cycling errands, could help to reduce blood pressure, with just five additional minutes a day estimated to yield improvements, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the University of Sydney.

Health - Pharmacology - 07.11.2024
New research seeks to better understand the role of the gut microbiome in Crohn’s disease
Researchers at the University of Glasgow have secured more than $3m to study the role the gut microbiome plays in post-operative outcomes for patients with Crohn's disease.