UCL in the media
Neglect common in English care homes
The largest-ever survey of care home staff in England, led by Dr Claudia Cooper, Professor Gill Livingston and Dr Penny Rapaport (UCL Psychiatry), has found that neglectful behaviours are widespread.
Read: Times (£), More: i News, Telegraph, Independent, Daily Mail, Sun, Express, UCL NewsHow Jeremy Bentham Finally Came to America
Dr Tim Causer (UCL Bentham Project) and conservator Emilia Kingham (UCL Culture) comment on Jeremy Bentham's 'auto-icon' which is now on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, under loan from UCL.
Read: Mental Floss.Bentham on display at the Met Museum
UCL's spiritual forebear Jeremy Bentham is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, as part of an exhibition titled 'Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now)'.
Read: Washington Post.NHS warned on £9bn cost of Alzheimer's breakthroughs
Professor Jonathan Schott (UCL Institute of Neurology) co-led an Alzheimer's Research UK report into the future of dementia treatments.
Read: Financial Times (£), More: Telegraph, Daily Mail, ExpressChildren in lower social classes heavier than more advantaged peers
Dr David Bann (UCL Institute of Education) led a study finding that disadvantaged children born at the start of the 21st century weighed up to 5kg more in their childhood and early teenage years than those from more privileged backgrounds.
Read: The Telegraph, More: Daily Mail, Express, Sun, UCL NewsWhy we're calling time on plastic waste
An article on advances in finding sustainable alternatives to conventional plastics mentions UCL's MSc in Advanced Materials Science, based at the UCL Institute for Materials Discovery.
Read: The GuardianMRI for all men suspected of prostate cancer could save thousands of lives - new UCL study
Giving all men with suspected prostate cancer an immediate MRI scan would save thousands of lives a year, the results of a new study suggest.
Read: Daily Telegraph (£) The Sun The Times (£) Daily MailHope for thousands as stem cell treatment restores eyesight
Two patients with the most common form of sight loss have had their ability to read restored by transplanted patches of cells taken from human embryos.
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Professor Andrew Reynolds (UCL Archaeology) comments on the discovery of a ruined medieval chapel in Britain at Low Tide on Channel 4. The team also found the wrecks of two barges and an explosion which saw the waters of the Severn ablaze.
Read: Wales onlineRussian election and succession planning
Dr Ben Noble (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) comments that "The succession question is already the main question in Russian politics," following Putin's landslide victory in the Russian election.
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