UCL in the media
Level playing field for Clostridium difficile diagnosis
The multi-centre study, in partnership with colleagues from UCL, tested more than 12,000 faecal samples from hospital patients to establish the best method for diagnosing C-Diff.
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UK-based marine aerofoil technology company Oceanfoil says that it has formed partnerships with naval architects Owen Clarke Design and UCL's Energy Institute to further develop the company's wingsails for auxiliary ship propulsion.
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Prof Robert West, (UCL Epidemiology and Public Health) said, "Economists are often not the best people to be engaged in public health-type research because their skill set is a poor match."
Read: MetroHeaney showed that great artists can be good men
"I flinched from the news of Seamus Heaney's death; after which a great desolation set in." - Karl Miller, former professor at UCL, commenting on the death of Heaney.
Read: Times (£)Just one minute of brisk exercise a day may help women to lose weight
Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Epidemiology and Public Health) was sceptical about the extent of the effect reported by the paper, but said the study answered the question of whether very small amounts of activity counted.
Read: Times (£)Scientists aim to lift the veil on so called dark matter and energy
Dr Chamkaur Ghag & Prof Ofer Lahav (UCL Physics and Astronomy) discuss the concept that Physics can only account for 5% of the 'stuff' that makes up the universe. Listen:
BBC Radio 4 - Today - (from 84 mins, 10 secs)Camden council pioneers computer coding in schools
The London local authority is working with UCL and Google to turn children from users to creators of computer technology.
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"The history department at UCL has redesigned its course to make it far more intellectually coherent and stimulating to its undergraduates." says Anthony Seldon.
Read: SpectatorDigital pill tells doctors if patients are taking their drugs right
Nick Barber, Professor of Pharmacy at UCL, said failure to take drugs properly was a major problem with up to 50 per cent of patients not taking them as prescribed.
Read: Sunday ExpressSyria: legal doubt cast on British government's case for intervention
Prof Philippe Sands (UCL Faculty of Laws) said the argument set out on Thursday by Dominic Grieve, "is premised on factual assumptions - principally that the weapons were used by the Syrian government..."
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