Research news

Five cases of Alzheimer’s disease are believed to have arisen as a result of medical treatments decades earlier, reports a team of UCL and UCLH researchers. 

People with the acquired communication disorder aphasia – which involves problems with the understanding or production of speech –have benefitted greatly from a two-year programme of therapy at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at UCLH.

A potential new drug for patients with multiple myeloma who have failed to respond to several rounds of existing treatments has shown promise in an early phase trial at UCLH.

Minimally invasive therapies for prostate cancer which remove the cancer while leaving the rest of the prostate intact are beneficial for patients and cost effective according to new research.

People with epilepsy experience brain waves usually only present in others during sleep, and these ‘slow’ waves may protect against increased brain excitability associated with the condition, according to new research from UCLH and UCL.