UCL in the media
The women left in agony for years
Dr Ertan Saridogan (UCL Institute for Women's Health) comments on the difficulty in diagnosing endometriosis.
Read: Daily MailGoogle buys British artificial intelligence firm DeepMind
DeepMind Technologies, a technology start-up co-founded by Dr Demis Hassabis (UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit), has been purchased by Google for £400 million.
Read: Telegraph, More: Independent, The Times, City A.M, Evening Standard, Khaleej Times, Boston Globe, Economic Times, Listen: BBC Radio 4 'PM' (from 26 mins)DeepMind buy heralds rise of the machines
Professor Geraint Rees (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) comments on Google's acquisition of DeepMind Technologies, describing Demis Hassabis as "a phenomenon".
Read: Financial Times, More: Telegraph, Watch: BBC London News (from 14 mins)Messier 82 Supernova
Dr Steve Fossey (UCL Department of Physics & Astronomy) discusses the discovery by UCL staff and students of a supernova in Messier 82 and what we can learn from such a finding.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 1 hour 54 mins)Inside Health: e-cigarettes
Professor Robert West (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) discusses the rising trend in e-cigarette use and the advertising relating to them.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Inside Health' (from 1 min 30)Medical advances at risk from attacks on patent system
Professors Sir Robin Jacob (UCL Faculty of Laws) and David Taylor (UCL Practice & Policy) comment on how medical advances risk being slowed by attacks on the global patent system.
Read: Financial Times (£)E-cigarettes are too good to quit, but not for under 18s
Professor Robert West (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) discusses legislative plans to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to under 18s.
Read: The ConversationParty girl drip cured hangover from hell - but water's cheaper
Dr Joseph Hayes (UCL Division of Psychiatry) comments on the new trend for using 'the party girl drip' to cure hangovers.
Read: The Sun (£)Cardiologist funds poetry competition for medical students
Professor John Martin (UCL Metabolism and Experimental Therapeutics) has organised and funded a poetry competition for medical students as part of a Yale-UCL Collaboration, to stop students 'becoming intellectually brutalised'.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 1 hour 25 mins)Baby dies of rickets from vegetarian mother
Professor Brian Wharton (UCL Institute of Child Health) has said that a rise in "unusual diets that provide little vitamin D and calcium" were partly to blame for the return of rickets.
Read: Telegraph