UCL in the media
Only those with the sharpest eyesight can solve this brainteaser in under 9 seconds
Dr Yuntao Chen (UCL Epidemiology and Public Health) said: “It is shocking to think that the number of people living with dementia by 2040 may be up to 70% higher than if dementia incidence had continued to decline.”
Anger ‘increases risk of heart attack for 40 minutes’
Professor Riyaz Patel (UCL Institute of Health Informatics) said the study was an “elegant experiment” finding that “recalling memories that evoke anger causes a temporary disruption in the usually healthy functioning of the blood vessels”.
Calls for MPs to prioritise health equity and wellbeing
Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Institute of Health Equity) has written a damning letter to party leaders and MPs across the country after a new UCL IHE report confirmed that UK government policies are cutting people’s lives short.
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New screening trial to save thousands of men’s lives from prostate cancer
Professors Mark Emberton and Caroline Moore (UCL Division of Surgery & Interventional Science) will co-lead Prostate Cancer UK’s new £42m screening trial, which aims to find the best way to screen men for prostate cancer and double the number of lives saved.
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Women are 40% more likely to experience depression during the perimenopause
Women are 40% more likely to experience depression in the perimenopause than those who aren’t experiencing any menopausal symptoms, finds a new study led by UCL researchers, including Dr Roopal Desai (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences).
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James Baldwin’s campaign to crack Hollywood
“He was an exceptional film critic and someone who truly understood the form”, says Dr Clive Nwonka (UCL Institute for Advanced Studies) about writer and activist James Baldwin, whose work is the subject of a new film season at the Barbican Centre during May 2024.
Why the new FLiRT group of variants is expected to bring a new wave of Covid
Professor Christina Pagel (UCL Mathematics) says she expects the prevalence of infections to increase over the coming weeks. She said: ‘JN.1 has mutated further and several of its children have found mutations that help them spread much faster that their parent’.
Vaping exposes teenagers to lead and uranium that could affect the brain, study shows
Professor Lion Shahab (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health) said the study underscored “the need to carefully monitor exposure in e-cigarette users and highlights the fact that e-cigarettes are not risk free, and therefore should not be used by people who have never smoked".
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People diagnosed with cancer in prison more likely to die from the disease
Cancer patients diagnosed in English prisons do not receive the same level of curative treatment as those in the general population, meaning they are at increased risk of death, according to a study led by Professor Rachael Hunter (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care).
'Planet Nine' hypothesis gets new boost
Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Space & Climate Physics) said: 'This is an interesting new study providing possible further evidence for a Planet Nine, based on the orbital dynamics of several long-period objects orbiting the sun at large distances beyond Neptune.’