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• Guy Noble - arts curator

  Art and creativity can be a real tonic for health, says UCLH arts curator Guy Noble.

• Flu information for patients and visitors

  Advice on preventing the spread of flu and other respiratory viruses, to keep UCLH patients safe.

• Varicocele embolisation

  This page tells you about the procedure known as varicocele (pronounced VARI-CO-SEAL) embolisation.

• Women’s mental agility is better during menstruation

  Participants reacted quicker and made fewer errors during menstruation, despite believing their performance would be worse, according to new research from UCL and the Institute of Sport, Exercise & Health (ISEH).

• One year at the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

  The hospital marked the start of the year a visit by HM The Queen in February 2020. A few weeks after this celebration, the pandemic took hold and the hospital stepped up to help.

• Research into restoring loss of smell and taste in COVID patients

  Specialist teams at UCLH and UCL are at the forefront of research which could bring hope to people who have been robbed of their sense of smell and taste after suffering the long-term legacy of COVID-19.

• Immunotherapy significantly increases the number of patients free from bowel cancer

  An immunotherapy drug given before surgery instead of chemotherapy meant that significantly more patients with a certain genetic profile were cancer free after surgery, according to clinical trial results presented by researchers at UCL and UCLH.

• Publications and Reading Material

  The Sickle Cell Society (SCS) and the UK Thalassaemia Society (UKTS) have worked in partnership with the NHS sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening programme to engage with communities less likely to access health information through usual NHS channels. The societies provide feedback from people that share the same population background or have experience of the condition and to feed into the programme updates and improvements. 

• Patient education and training videos

  Education and training videos for Red Cell Network patients

• Cystic fibrosis drug tested to fight inflammation in COVID-19

  Patients with COVID-19 will be given the cystic fibrosis drug ‘Dornase alfa’ to determine if it can help improve survival by reducing excess inflammation in the lungs in a trial at UCLH.