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The pro-screening lobby is locked into a mindset dating back to the late 1980s. Since then our understanding of the biology of breast cancer and its treatment has moved on whilst the screening programme continues without modi...

Each year approximately 16 million children are treated for injuries in emergency departments. Trauma Run is a 19 minute video shot with a bilingual cast. It focuses on teaching children how to act quickly and correctly in an...

The philosopher, jurist and social scientist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) is considered UCL's spiritual father, and wrote widely on sex, population growth and wellbeing. Writing around the time of the UK's demographic transitio...

'Evidence-based policy and practice' tends to assume a direct relationship between the gathering of evidence (through research for example) and the use of that evidence in public policy making. In reality the relationship bet...

'Evidence-based policy and practice' tends to assume a direct relationship between the gathering of evidence (through research for example) and the use of that evidence in public policy making. In reality the relationship bet...

A conference on Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health 6-7 November 2008, London.

In 60 seconds of straight talk, Dr Norman Swan keeps you up to date with the latest in medical research.

Professor Evans received the Nobel Prize for a series of groundbreaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and DNA recombination in mammals. He gave the 2009 Clinical Prize Lecture on the subject of ‘Stem Cells: Past...

Professor Evans received the Nobel Prize for a series of groundbreaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and DNA recombination in mammals. He gave the 2009 Clinical Prize Lecture on the subject of ‘Stem Cells: Past...

Rhona MacDonald, Senior Editor at 'The Lancet', presented 'Fatal Neglect: Forgotten issues in child health' beginning by highlighting that there are 10 million child deaths every year and asked, "How is this acceptable?" Lack...

Rhona MacDonald, Senior Editor at 'The Lancet', presented 'Fatal Neglect: Forgotten issues in child health' beginning by highlighting that there are 10 million child deaths every year and asked, "How is this acceptable?" Lack...

”Approximately one person in 20 will suffer from a ‘self-attack’ autoimmune disease during the course of their lifetime. These may vary from diseases that principally affect a single organ – such as diabetes, where the attack...

”Approximately one person in 20 will suffer from a ‘self-attack’ autoimmune disease during the course of their lifetime. These may vary from diseases that principally affect a single organ – such as diabetes, where the attack...

More than 300 adolescents and young adults die suddenly and unexpectedly each year in the UK. Most of these deaths are caused by inherited forms of heart disease and are potentially preventable. Mass screening programmes are...

More than 300 adolescents and young adults die suddenly and unexpectedly each year in the UK. Most of these deaths are caused by inherited forms of heart disease and are potentially preventable. Mass screening programmes are...

”The brain has evolved to understand other people. A relatively new area of neuroscience is the investigation of the social brain. Recent research has shed light on how we are able to understand other people’s actions and int...

Fitness, particularly aerobic endurance fitness, is an excellent predictor of future health. As a population, are we getting less fit as we get more fat? The information we have indicates that this is the case, but the data a...

The 20th century has seen impressive gains in health and life expectancy in many parts of the world – but these improvements are unequally distributed. In every country, poor people and those from socially disadvantaged group...

Dr Brad Duchaine talks about a World Without Facial Recognition

Predicting where burglaries are most likely to take place is harder than you might think, even for police officers. This lecture looks at how work at the UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science has shown that crime tends to...

A new approach to medical imaging uses light to generate images both of newborn babies’ brains and of breast cancer. Blood absorbs light strongly and its colour depends on how much oxygen it is carrying, so imaging using ligh...

Professor Alan North grew up in West Yorkshire and studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen before taking a PhD in pharmacology (1973). He moved to the US in 1975 as Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Loyola Univers...

Professor Geoffrey Burnstock was born in London in 1929 and studied theology, maths and physics at King’s College London, before completing a PhD at King’s and University College London (1957) under the supervision of the neu...

From 1975 to 1995, Professor Moncada worked at the Wellcome Research Laboratories, first as Head of Prostaglandin Research and then as Director of Research. He described the structure of prostacyclin, which acts as an effecti...

Dr Ann Silver studied physiology at Edinburgh University where she completed a PhD (1960) as an external student whilst carrying out research at the Agricultural Research Council Institute of Animal Physiology at Babraham, Ca...