UCL in the media
Calls for MPs to prioritise health equity and wellbeing
Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Institute of Health Equity) has written a damning letter to party leaders and MPs across the country after a new UCL IHE report confirmed that UK government policies are cutting people’s lives short.
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New screening trial to save thousands of men’s lives from prostate cancer
Professors Mark Emberton and Caroline Moore (UCL Division of Surgery & Interventional Science) will co-lead Prostate Cancer UK’s new £42m screening trial, which aims to find the best way to screen men for prostate cancer and double the number of lives saved.
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Women are 40% more likely to experience depression during the perimenopause
Women are 40% more likely to experience depression in the perimenopause than those who aren’t experiencing any menopausal symptoms, finds a new study led by UCL researchers, including Dr Roopal Desai (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences).
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Why the new FLiRT group of variants is expected to bring a new wave of Covid
Professor Christina Pagel (UCL Mathematics) says she expects the prevalence of infections to increase over the coming weeks. She said: ‘JN.1 has mutated further and several of its children have found mutations that help them spread much faster that their parent’.
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Vaping exposes teenagers to lead and uranium that could affect the brain, study shows
Professor Lion Shahab (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health) said the study underscored “the need to carefully monitor exposure in e-cigarette users and highlights the fact that e-cigarettes are not risk free, and therefore should not be used by people who have never smoked".
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People diagnosed with cancer in prison more likely to die from the disease
Cancer patients diagnosed in English prisons do not receive the same level of curative treatment as those in the general population, meaning they are at increased risk of death, according to a study led by Professor Rachael Hunter (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care).
'Planet Nine' hypothesis gets new boost
Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Space & Climate Physics) said: 'This is an interesting new study providing possible further evidence for a Planet Nine, based on the orbital dynamics of several long-period objects orbiting the sun at large distances beyond Neptune.’
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How many of us are really suffering with long Covid?
Professor Christina Pagel (UCL Mathematics) analyses the new figures: ‘In March 2023 they just used the date of a person’s first confirmed Covid infection to calculate duration’.
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Women should give up vaping if they want to get pregnant, study suggests
Dr Helen O’Neill (UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health) said: ‘Most people are not aware of any link between lifestyle vices and fertility. But it’s important people understand there is so much that can be done to increase your chance of having family’.
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Nigerian Pastor; Muslim Drag Queen; Humanism
Professor Nichola Raihani (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) explores what it means to her to be Humanist. She said: ‘Humans have evolved to be an inordinately cooperative species’.
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