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The TRANSFORM trial has also been backed by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and Movember, who have committed £17.5million towards the trial between them. Among the six research leads are Professors Mark…

The research, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, provided a meta-analysis of seven studies involving 9,141 women from across the world (including Australia, USA, China, Netherlands and Switzerland), to understand whether…

In one of The King’s first official visits since his own cancer diagnosis, Their Majesties visited the University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre. The centre provides some of the most advanced cancer care in the country through its…

Physical punishment, such as smacking and hitting, is the most common form of violence against children. Scotland and Wales recently prohibited physical punishment in all settings, while physical punishment in the home remains legal in…

The researchers say their findings, published in Nature, provide insight into the role of sleep, but still leave an open question around what function the latter half of a night’s sleep serves. The researchers say the study supports the…

The study, published in Nature, showed how these new-found cells migrate to the site of damage, providing new insights into the way the liver heals itself. The authors say the findings could spur the development of new therapies that…

Researchers found that the average person who smokes dropped from smoking 14 cigarettes per day in January 2008 to 11 cigarettes per day in October 2019. But the number hasn’t budged since. And people who smoke daily are getting through an…

The purchase of the Grade II listed, mid-19th century property brings the building back to UCL, having originally been designed by Thomas Leverton Donaldson, Professor of Architecture at University College, London and built in 1848-49 as a…

NIHR Professor De Coppi is the Nuffield Professor and Head of the Surgery Unit at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, and a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). He is also the co-lead of…

The researchers said that, given this shift in thinking, making much more of the potential savings to be had might encourage more people to stub out for good. The study, published in the open access journal BMJ Public Health and funded…