UCL in the media
Health: The breast-screening debate in perspective
Professor Michael Baum (UCL Research Department of General Surgery), a critic of the current screening programme, says the system needs to be fine-tuned to assess risk more accurately.
Why lefties are handy at adapting - investigating handedness
Professor Chris McManus (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) estimates that with Arabic and Urdu, among many other languages,Ìýaround 35-40 per cent of the world writes from right to left.
Australian Universities Defend Alternative-Medicine Teaching
"Courses in alternative medicine are dishonest, they teach things that aren't true, and things that are dangerous to patients in some cases," says Professor David Colquhoun (UCL Division of Biosciences).
Transplants and the future of intensive care
Dr Kevin Fong (»Ê¼Ò»ªÈËeuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology) discusses how these important medical interventions started and, crucially, where they are heading.
Immigration Focus
Professor John Salt (UCL Geography) comments on a speech by the Immigration Minister Damien Green calling for the focus on immigration to change.
The Story of Thursday
Dr Chris Abram (UCL Scandinavian Studies) talks about Thor, and how Thursday came to be named after him.
Facebook flotation: Engineering social network success
Professor Daniel Miller (UCL Anthropology) talks about Facebook ahead of its stock market flotation.
'Right patient' key to early Alzheimer detection
Professor Derek Hill (UCL Medical Physics and Bioengineering) comments on a study which has found that a new test may be able to detect the potential for Alzheimer's in people in their 30s and 40s.
Voicegrams transform brain activity into words
Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Cognitive Neuroscience) and Dr Mark Lythgoe (UCL Centre for Biomedical Imaging) comment on a study which has decoded the brain's electrical activity and reconstructed the words a person is hearing.
Path Is Found for the Spread of Alzheimer's
Professor John Hardy (UCL Molecular Neuroscience) comments on a new study showing that Alzheimer's diseaseÌýseems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell.