Preterm infants do not get used to repeated pain in the way that full-term infants, children and adults do habituate to pain, a study led by UCL has found.
Prof Laura Shallcross will lead research to reduce the impact of infections in care homes after being awarded a prestigious NIHR Research Professorship.
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers, involving several UCLH and UCL clinicians and scientists, has developed a way to monitor the progression of movement disorders using motion capture technology and AI.
A new personalised cancer treatment can radically improve the outlook for some patients with bile duct cancer, finds an international multicentre trial involving researchers at UCL and UCLH.
Breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s disease are exciting and invigorating dementia research, and we will need to be ready to deliver new treatments as they come through, say Professor Nick Fox and Dr Catherine Mummery.
A large trial at UCLH and UCL will investigate whether a drug currently in use to treat respiratory conditions can slow the progress of Parkinson’s disease.
A UCLH/UCL clinical trial of a personalised therapy for blood cancer has been expanded, meaning new groups of patients with a wider range of blood cancers are now receiving the treatment.