UCL in the media
Has backing for Brexit in the Red Wall faded?
“Deaths caused by alcohol, drugs and suicide, are far higher in the North than the South," comments Professor John Tomaney (UCL Bartlett School of Planning) in relation to a sense of abandonment felt in the North East that some believe led to a heavy backing of Brexit in 2016.
Sharp rise in vapers using high-strength nicotine in England
The proportion of vapers using high-strength nicotine has increased sharply in England since 2021, when disposable e-cigarettes first became popular, according to a new study led by Dr Sarah Jackson (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care).
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Regenerative treatment may offer a cure for incontinence patients
"The new technology takes muscle cells collected from the patient via biopsy and anchors them to small, dissolvable polymer microspheres; each about the size of a grain of salt," explains Professor Richard Day (UCL Medicine).
Study sheds light on why some people do not get Covid-19
“These findings shed new light on the crucial early events that either allow the virus to take hold or rapidly clear it before symptoms develop,” says Dr Marko Nikolic (UCL Medicine).
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The egg-freezing industry's 'shady' sales pitch
"What we're starting to see with egg freezing now is the overexploitation of egg freezing as a technology that's marketed as being potentially useful to all women who should use it as some kind of backup plan," says Dr Zeynep Gurtin (UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health).
Map shows most gerrymandered US states
Gerrymandering - the act of manipulating the boundaries of an electoral constituency to favour one party - is "one of the main drivers of polarisation on Capital Hill," states Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science).
Blood test could predict Parkinson’s seven years before symptoms
A team of UCL researchers including Professor Kevin Mills (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) and colleagues from University Medical Center Goettingen, have developed a blood test that uses AI to predict Parkinson’s up to seven years before the onset of symptoms.
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The wider importance of media studies in the school curriculum
The effective disappearance of media studies from the curriculum, despite its popularity, has consequences for tomorrow’s university students, writes Professor Andrew Burn (IOE, Faculty of Education and Society).
Why are Mbappe and team-mates speaking out on French elections?
“The discussion around this could possibly impact the election in the sense that it could mobilise younger voters, who maybe weren’t thinking of voting or who didn’t even know there was an election,” says Philippe Marlière (UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society).
Experts call for action to tackle decline in children’s health
“We used to think of the combination of undernutrition and obesity as a feature of low- and middle-income countries. We are now seeing it in Britain in 2024, a devastating effect of poverty," says Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Institute of Health Equity).
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