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• Rare cases of blood clots and low platelets after vaccination

  UCLH-led research paper outlines mechanism behind rare cases of blood clots and low platelets after vaccination

• Musculoskeletal Outpatient Therapy Service (UCH)

  The musculoskeletal (MSK) outpatient therapy service at University College Hospital provides assessment and treatment of patients for a variety of specialities including orthopaedic, rheumatology, hand therapy, women’s health, orthotic, podiatry and spinal non-operative and operative patients with musculoskeletal dysfunction.

• Fatigue (Post-COVID Service)

  This patient information is intended to help patients suffering from long COVID to better manage and understand their fatigue.

• Paediatric Series No 09 - Having total body irradiation

  This page has been written for parents and carers whose child is having total body irradiation (TBI) for leukaemia, lymphoma, or some other rare blood disorder.

• 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).

• 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.

• High blood pressure and its drug treatment unlikely to increase entry of COVID-19 virus into cells

  Fears that people with high blood pressure are more at risk from severe Covid-19 because it is easier for the virus to enter their cells and tissues have been laid to rest, thanks to research involving UCLH.

• The Palliative Care and Symptom Control Team

  This page provides information about the Palliative care and symptom control team

• Steroid drug reduces mortality in hospitalised Covid-19 patients

  A national study with initial results shows steroid dexamethasone may substantially reduce mortality in severely ill Covid-19 patients.

• 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.