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• UCLH research shows monitoring for ovarian cancer in high-risk women is beneficial

  Research published in the latest issue of the Journal of Medical Genetics concludes that regularly monitoring women who carry BRCA gene alterations does provide some benefits.

• Research to improve hospital treatment for people who use opioids

  UCLH is to trial a set of interventions to improve hospital care for people who use opioids such as heroin.

• David Beckham brings joy to young cancer patients

  Young cancer patients and staff couldn’t believe their eyes when David Beckham paid a visit to the University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre earlier this year.

• Getting Ready for Transition (GReaT) to secondary school

  Our Getting Ready for Transition (GReaT) to secondary school parent information session will run on Tuesday 31 January 2023. 

• Cough medicine offers hope of new treatment to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease

  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.

• UCLH patient first in world to receive a new investigational drug in a phase 1 trial

  A UCLH patient with a rare hormonal condition is the first in the world to receive a new investigational drug in a first-in-human trial.

• New health clinic built into an eco-tricycle to treat homeless patients

  Find & Treat's new prototype Eco-Tricycle will visit parks, hostels, soup kitchens, be able to arrive under bridges or other street outreach locations to screen homeless patients for infectious diseases and more.

• Study highlights need to identify healthcare staff who lose sense of taste or smell

  Researchers from UCLH, UCL and the University of East Anglia have highlighted the need to identify, test and isolate healthcare workers who experience a new loss of taste or smell (anosmia).

• Preterm babies do not habituate to repeated pain

  Preterm infants do not get used to repeated pain in the way that full-term infants, children and adults do habituate to pain, finds a study at UCLH and UCL.

• New contracts awarded to facilities management partners

  UCLH has retendered and awarded five-year contracts to two companies to provide estates and facilities services across UCLH.