UCL in the media
Statins 'may help control multiple sclerosis'
Early trial results show statins can slow brain shrinkage in people with MS, according to new research published in The Lancet and led by Dr Jeremy Chataway, (UCL Institute of Neurology) and Professor John Greenwood (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology).
Read: BBC News, More: UCL News, The Independent, Guardian, Daily Mail, New ScientistShakespeare Week
Professor Lisa Jardine (UCL Centre for Editing Lives & Letters) discusses the gender politics in Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Woman's Hour' (from 17 minutes 15 secs)Missing Malaysia plane: 10 theories examined
Professor Hugh Griffiths (UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering) discusses the possibility that the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 hid in the shadow of another airliner.
Read: BBCViking Art: A Culture Show Special
Dr Jane Kershaw (UCL Archaeology) looks at the art found in Viking jewelry.
Watch: BBC Two 'Viking Art: A Culture Show Special' (from 23 minutes 30 secs)What theatre and science can learn from one another
Professor David McAlpine (UCL Ear Institute) looks at the similarities between the arts and the sciences and the particularly the opportunities for engagement between theatre and the scientific process.
Read: The ConversationOnly quarter of those with flu show symptoms
Dr Andrew Hayward (UCL Infection & Population Health) says: "Reported cases of influenza represent the tip of a large clinical and subclinical iceberg that is mainly invisible to national surveillance systems that only record cases seeking medical attention."
Read: The Times (£), The Scotsman, Evening Standard, The Conversation, UCL NewsInformation overload acts 'to dim the lights' on what we see
Professor Nilli Lavie (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neurosciene) explains that too much visual information causes a phenomenon known as 'load induced blindness', with an effect akin to dimming the lights.
Read: Daily Mail, More: BBC News, UCL News, Listen: BBC Radio 4 'All in the Mind', More: BBC World Service 'The Science Hour' (from 12 mins 44 secs)London Brain Project exhibit busts epilepsy myths
Michelle Downes (UCL Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit) talks about her team's Beyond Seizures public engagement project launched to break down stereotypes surrounding epilepsy.
Read: Wired UKGarden Cities
In light of new Government development plans for Ebbsfleet, Kent, Laurie Goodman (UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies) discusses the pros and cons of garden cities.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 2 hours 37 minutes)Warning over NHS 'austerity' drive
Professor David Taylor (UCL School of Pharmacy) discusses the finding's of the Licensed to Cure? report.
Read: Evening Standard