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The 2023 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change delivers a concerning health stocktake, with new global projections revealing the grave and mounting threat to human health as a result of climate inaction. Key…

Dr Chloe Park (UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science), Dr Jack Blumenau (UCL Political Science), Dr Lucy Irvine (UCL Institute for Global Health), Dr Neave O'Clery (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis), Dr Keri Wong and Dr Laura…

The research, published in The Lancet Public Health, used data from more than 17,000 people in the UK Household Longitudinal Study between 2009 and 2020 to investigate mental and physical health changes around the transition to becoming a…

The study, published in Preventive Medicine, concluded that technologies designed to make social interactions safer in indoor spaces, including air filtration, germicidal lights and ionisers, are not effective in the real world. The…

The trial at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) will involve patients recovering in hospital following conditions such as stroke and aphasia. There is already some evidence that music therapy can be beneficial…

UCL has the second most researchers listed in the UK behind the University of Oxford, and has moved up in the global ranking from 15th to 12th. UCL researchers were present in 12 of the 20 academic fields listed, namely: Biology &…

The study in mice, published in Neuron, is the first to show how hunger hormones can directly impact activity of the brain’s hippocampus when an animal is considering food. Lead author Dr Andrew MacAskill (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology…

The results were announced at the Union World Conference on Lung Health in Paris. One trial, known as TB-CHAMP, took place in South Africa, at five research sites in six provinces serving communities with high burdens of TB and MDR-TB.…

The paper, published in Science, presents records from North Atlantic sediments that allowed the researchers to investigate temperature changes in the surface and deep ocean throughout the last 1,200 years. From these data the team was able…

It is estimated that up to 27% of autistic people experience anxiety and 23% develop depression, compared to 5.9% and 3.3% in the wider population. Evidence-based psychological therapies, such as cognitive behavioural therapy or…