UCL in the media
Greater access to genetic testing in NHS will help cancer fight
The outlook for women with BRCA genes will improve, with greater access to genetic testing and screening and risk reducing surgery for women who have not yet developed cancer, says Dr Lucy Side (UCL Women's Cancer).
Read: The ConversationProfessor slams A&E closures
Professor Simon Shorvon (UCL Institute of Neurology) said: "London A&Es are finding it difficult to cope already. Not only would it take patients more time to get there under these plans, which is crucial in emergency care, but it's difficult to see how they'll cope."
Read: Evening StandardBritons show Victorian attitudes to epilepsy as children who suffer from the condition are accused of being 'possessed'
Professor Helen Cross (UCL Institute of Child Health) said: "These high levels of prejudice have a huge impact on how children can manage their condition. If you're worried about being bullied then you don't want to talk to people about it, which means you don't have buddies who know what to do if you have a seizure."
Read: Independent More: Irish HealthAbuse in Oxford - turning a scandal into a race scare
Ella Cockbain (UCL Security and Crime Science) said there is "a fixation that white girls are deliberately or exclusively targeted... My research has found nothing to support that. It actually suggests the opposite."
Read: Socialist WorkerA coronation for our times
Dr Robert Morris (UCL Constitution Unit) comments on the Church's plans to update the coronation ceremony.
Read: TelegraphSpot the boss who is mad, bad and dangerous to hire
Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL Psychology) discusses management derailment and three indicators of problems ahead.
Read: Sunday Times (£)Climbing Everest for a high chance of survival
Dr Dan Martin (UCL Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine), and Xtreme Everest researchers are currently packing up their equipment and sending it and the collected data back to the UK, where the results will be assessed.
Read: Scotsman Irish ExaminerThe medical advances in tackling heart disease
Dr Vassilis Georgiadis (UCL Medical Molecular Biology Unit) and Dr Suwan Jayasinghe (UCL Mechanical Engineering) talk to Justin Webb about their research into repairing damaged hearts.
Read: IndependentFive things prisoners' books show about life in prison
Don Quixote is "brimming over with anecdotes and digressions", says Dr Alexander Samson (UCL Spanish & Latin American Studies).
Read: BBC NewsModern art made from fifty million-year-old London clay
London clay, thought to be fifty million years old, has been turned into a piece of 21st century art. Bird Nest, created by east London sculptor Frank Harris (UCL Slade School of Fine Art), was made using material dug up during the building of the new Crossrail tunnels.
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