UCL in the media
'Major improvements' in arthritis symptoms for over half of drug trial patients
An interim trial led by Emeritus Professor Jonathan Edwards (UCL Medicine) has found dramatic improvements in over 50 per cent of arthritis patients using rituximab, a drug which suppresses antibody production.
Social exclusion a factor in creating jihadists
A team co-led by Nafees Hamid (UCL Security & Crime Science), which utilised neuroimaging techniques to map the brains of radicalised individuals, has found that social exclusion is a major factor in the creation of violient jihadists.
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Hipster heaven is found in Glasgow
A report by Honorary Lecturer Dr Timothy Moonen (UCL STEaPP) and colleagues at UCL’s City Leadership Laboratory suggests Glasgow’s appeal to millennials is on the rise.
The importance of a child's gut reaction
Dr Nigel Field (UCL Institute for Global Health), Principal Investigator for the Baby Biome Study, comments on the potential impacts of antibiotics on children’s gut systems.
Profile of anaesthetist Professor Ramani Moonesinghe
Professor Ramani Moonesinghe (UCL Surgery and Interventional Science) talks about her approach as a researcher to seek out examples of good practice – “positive deviance” – rather than bad, and why anaesthetists are the backbone of hospital teams.
Genetic study of eating disorders could pave way for new treatment
A new study led by Professor Clare Llewellyn (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health) will focus on the role that genetics and early eating habits play in eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia nervosa.
Russia's post-revolutionary drive to replace religion with science
Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Hosking (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies) talks about post-revolution attempts to abolish the Russian Church, and its officially sanctioned resurgence during the Second World War.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Living with the Gods' (from 20 mins 28 secs)
Depression linked to social media twice as high among girls
Professor Yvonne Kelly (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care) and her team find that teenage girls are twice as likely to show signs of depressive symptoms linked to social media use than boys.
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Call for obesity to be reclassified as a disease
Commenting on calls for obesity to be classed as a disease, Professor Rachel Batterham (UCL Medicine) says this could be the only way to treat the cause of the UK’s obesity crisis.
Can an auto-immune illness explain the Salem witch trials?
Dr Michael Zandi (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) suggests that anti-NMDAR encephalitis, an auto-immune disease, may have caused the symptoms and behaviours which led to twenty women being hanged in the 1692 Salem witches trial.