UCL in the media
Lewy body dementia – signs, symptoms and treatment
Professor Rimona Weil (UCL Dementia Research Centre) described the main symptoms of Lewy body dementia as hallucinations, cognitive fluctuations, REM sleep disorder and making mistakes with spatial awareness.
'This is scarily familiar': The parents learning they have autism after their children's diagnosis
Professor Joshua Stott (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) explains the impact a diagnosis can have. He said: “when you get an autism diagnosis for many people, you look back and say, 'oh, that was what was happening, I understand now why I had those horrible experiences'".
Gay and bisexual men diagnosed with mpox faced substantial stigma
Gay and bisexual men who were diagnosed with mpox during the 2022 outbreak in England, faced substantial issues related to stigma and potentially poor-quality care when accessing services, finds a new study led Dr Charles Witzel (UCL Institute for Global Health).
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London Tide with music by PJ Harvey, Salman Rushdie's story of survival: Knife and tenor Ian Bostridge
Professor John Mullan (UCL English) joins writer Tahmima Anam to review Salman Rushdie’s memoir ‘Knife’ and new Netflix drama ‘Baby Reindeer’.
11 benefits (and downsides) of running for your body
Professor Charlotte Manisty (UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences) tracked 138 healthy first-time marathon runners, testing them before and after the events to study the effects on arterial stiffening, blood pressure and factors that contribute to vascular ageing.
Dr Oz accused of using his mother's dementia diagnosis to promote his 'bogus' supplements
Professor Robert Howard (UCL Psychiatry) said: 'if you're already eating a good diet then there's absolutely no benefit at all in taking supplements like omega-3 for dementia'.
'Teenagers still don’t get the sex education they need - and I'm not surprised at all'
Professor Joyce Harper (UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health) explained: “Shortcomings in fertility education in schools also meant students were left feeling both ill-informed and negative towards their own fertility and ability to have children.”
How puberty blockers slipped through the dangerous loophole in Britain’s drug regulation
Dr Sallie Baxendale (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) says that though doctors have a right to prescribe off-label, puberty blockers “escaped out into the wild”.
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Increase in smoking among younger women in more advantaged social groups
Smoking among women under 45 from more advantaged social groups in England appears to have increased over the past decade, according to a new study by Dr Sarah Jackson (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care).
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Donald Trump scores win on abortion
Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science) said: "Many Americans have loose or malleable views on policy issues, even controversial ones like abortion," "Consequently, they often look to party leaders to inform their perspective."