UCL in the media
Smoking and anxiety
Research by Professor Robert West (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) found that smokers have a 70% increased chance of anxiety and depression compared to non-smokers.
Listen: BBC Tees 'Mike Parr' (from 1 hour 10 mins)The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world
Professor Michael Marmot (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) examines the effect social disadvantage has on health.
Read: Lancet (£)Obesity as dangerous as terror threat, warns medical chief
Commenting on Dame Sally Davies's obesity warnings, Professor Nick Finer (UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science) said: "Elevating the problem of obesity to a national risk could help to address the current laissez-faire attitude to this huge, angry, growing health catastrophe".
Read: BBC News, More: Daily Mail, Telegraph, Times (£), Mirror, Listen: BBC Three Counties 'The JVS Show' (from 42 mins 48 secs)Obesity and poverty go hand in hand
An analysis led by Professor Yvonne Kelly (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) has found that Britain's poorest children are almost three times as likely to be obese as the richest.
Read: Mirror, More: Daily Express, ITV NewsNHS chiefs' U-turn over life-extending ovarian cancer drug
Professor Jonathan Ledermann (CRUK Cancer Trials Centre at UCL) said: "While today's decision by NICE will be welcomed by all those involved in treating and supporting women with this disease, it is disappointing that the decision has taken so long and some will still not have access".
Read: Daily MailThe great researchers of the past would not get funding today
Professor Donald Braben (UCL Earth Sciences and Office of the UCL Vice-Provost, Research) looks at the implications of Sir Paul Nurse's review of research councils.
Read: THE (£)Climate change talks near to deal
Professor Paul Ekins (UCL Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources) explains the policy changes that have been made regarding carbon emissions.
Watch: Channel 4 'Channel 4 News' (from 1 min 40 secs)Alzheimer's: Drinking a glass of wine a day may help sufferers reduce risk of death from disease
Dr Andrew Sommerlad (UCL Psychiatry) comments on a study suggesting that people with Alzheimer's who drink a glass of wine a day are less likely to die from the disease.
Read: Independent'Lone wolf' terror attacks hard to stop, says security expert
Dr Paul Gill (UCL Security & Crime Science) explains why extremists acting on their own to carry out so-called "lone wolf" terrorist attacks are difficult to predict and extremely hard to stop.
Read: GuardianHow Tor's privacy was (momentarily) broken, and the questions it raises
Dr Steven Murdoch (UCL Computer Science) examines how the breaking of Tor's privacy protections raises many issues, including questions about research ethics and the control of surveillance by government agencies.
Read: The Conversation