UCL in the media
Medical advances at risk from attacks on patent system
Professors Sir Robin Jacob (UCL Faculty of Laws) and David Taylor (UCL Practice & Policy) comment on how medical advances risk being slowed by attacks on the global patent system.
E-cigarettes are too good to quit, but not for under 18s
Professor Robert West (UCLÌý Epidemiology & Public Health) discusses legislative plans to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to under 18s.
Party girl drip cured hangover from hell - but water's cheaper
Dr Joseph Hayes (UCL Division of Psychiatry) comments on the new trend for using 'the party girl drip' to cure hangovers.
Cardiologist funds poetry competition for medical students
Professor John Martin (UCL Metabolism and Experimental Therapeutics) has organised and funded a poetry competition for medical students as part of a Yale-UCL Collaboration, to stop students 'becoming intellectually brutalised'.
Baby dies of rickets from vegetarian mother
Professor Brian Wharton (UCL Institute of Child Health) has said that a rise in "unusual diets that provide little vitamin D and calcium" were partly to blame for the return of rickets.
Why experts fear traffic pollution may be linked to a list of health problems
Professor Martin Bobak (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) comments on the association between air pollution and low birth weight.
Sugar vs fat
Dr Chris van Tulleken (UCL Division of Infection and Immunity) takes part in an experiment to see whether fat or sugar is to blame for the obesity crisis.
The 25 most international universities in the world
UCL has been named joint twelfth in the Times Higher Education's compilation of most international universities in the world:
Neil Kinnock's son joins succession of aspiring political offspring
Dr Meg Russell (UCL Department of Political Science) says the rigorous selection procedures of most constituency parties allow very little scope for nepotism or patronage in politics.
Heart patients who could be saved in Sweden
British heart attack patients are a third more likely to die than those in Sweden, according to a study led by Professor Harry Hemingway (UCL Epidemiology and Public Health).
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