Poppy Tombs (Danby)

📞Media Manager: @uclnews
✏️ Journalist: [email protected]
🔙 Formerly: @DailyMirror, @CloserOnline, @Bellamag and @MailOnline

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📻“While employers are supportive at the beginning it tends to fade away as time goes on”: Professor @ManuellGomes @UCL_IEHC talks to @martinstanford @LBCNews about his research into how long Covid could cost the economy billions each year (from 34 mins) https://t.co/HbyYyaEDS2

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People are facing record-breaking health threats due to climate inaction, including continued investment in fossil fuels and lagging funding for action to protect health, finds the latest Lancet Countdown report led by Dr @MarinaRomanello @UCLGlobalHealth https://t.co/aNw3dMDHSB

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Factors such as education, occupation & wealth influence the likelihood of developing cognitive impairment or dementia in later life & whether a person is likely to recover, finds a study led by @AswathikuttyAsh & Dr @DorinaCadar @UCL_IEHC @BSMSMedSchool https://t.co/DurCN4JEjf

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A new £9 million @UKRI_News @ESRC Centre for Life Course Health Equity, which is focused on tackling and reducing health inequalities in the UK, will be led by experts at UCL including Professor @YvonneJKelly and Professor @Anne_McMunn @UCL_IEHC https://t.co/uDaVgGx1u2

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🔊Professor @SelinaWray and Dr @AshviniKeshavan @UCLIoN @UCLBrainScience talk to @JamesTGallagher on @BBCRadio4 Inside Health about mini brains, blood tests and the future of Alzheimer's treatment (from 11:35) https://t.co/hNk0GP4C8X

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🌟 Congratulations to Professor @cathmummery, Professor Nick Fox, and Professor Sir John Hardy @UCLIoN @UCLBrainScience for highlighting the ground-breaking discoveries made by experts at @drcionucl in the #GriersonAwards-winning documentary, The Jennings vs Alzheimer’s

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The #GriersonAwards winner for Best Science Documentary goes to The Jennings vs Alzheimer’s 🌟 - presented by @AldoKane

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Researchers @UCLIoN, @uclcancer and @TheCrick, including @drimrannoorani, Professor Sonia Gandhi @LabGandhi and Professor @CharlesSwanton, have embarked on a new project named RAPID, to establish a causal link between air pollution and #dementia https://t.co/hga4B5CPqk

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Almost nine in 10 young adults in the UK believe that removing a condom during sex without consent is sexual assault, and around half support prison time as a penalty, finds a new study led by Dr Farida Ezzat and Dr Geraldine Barrett @UCL_IfWH https://t.co/XDfipZotzi

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People with atrial fibrillation who have a stroke could benefit from blood thinning treatments at an earlier stage than is currently recommended, finds a study led by UCL researchers including Professors David Werring @UCLIoN and Nick Freemantle @UCL_CCTU https://t.co/TqePvhNPSz

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A clinical trial for children with an aggressive type of blood cancer, led by Dr @sghorashian & her team @UCLchildhealth & @GreatOrmondSt, will run alongside an adult clinical trial for the first time, with the hope of developing more effective treatments https://t.co/vsSPAj0nYH

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📺 "We are going to get there": Prof @cathmummery @drcionucl discusses #dementia trials and treatments with @sallymag1 as part of her new @BBCScotland documentary, "Sally Magnusson: Alzheimer's, a Cure and Me". Watch on @iplayer now (from 59 mins 49 secs): https://t.co/VoWrOnLHRr

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“This shows us the extent to which children’s cognition can continue to improve in the years after surgery": A study led by Dr @maria_eriksson_ @UCLchildhealth found that epilepsy surgery can reverse cognitive decline in children who become seizure free https://t.co/aehjoLETdb

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Details of two new courses that will form part of the UK’s first menopause education and support programme have been published by UCL researchers including @ProfJoyceHarper, Dr Shema Tariq @savoy__truffle & @drnickykeay @UCL_IfWH @UCLGlobalHealth @DoM_UCL https://t.co/m87Tuu1OzL

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Newborn babies are born with a type of bacterium in their gut that could be used to develop new personalised infant therapeutic probiotics, finds a study involving Profs Nigel Field and Alison Rodger, and Cristina Garcia-Maurino Alcazar @UCLGlobalHealth https://t.co/0fJ6OMrAAv

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Mothers under the age of 20 are at greater risk of being involved in care proceedings in the 10 years after having their first child - with 1 in 15 affected - finds a report led by Dr Georgina Ireland & Prof Ruth Gilbert @UCLchildhealth @NuffieldFound https://t.co/Em5QK7i7VZ

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Over the past decade, the number of NHS general practices in England has fallen by 20% with 15% fewer qualified FTE GPs per 1000 patients - but the average practice patient list size has increased by 40%, finds a study involving Prof @i_petersen @UCL_PCPH https://t.co/R7MKIt66Bw

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Researchers @drcionucl @UCLIoN have welcomed the "momentous" MHRA decision to license the immunotherapy drug, Lecanemab, for use in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease - making it the first Alzheimer's treatment to be approved for use in Great Britain https://t.co/7wBP56Mv6E

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Cold water swimming is growing in popularity amongst women, but more support is needed to make many wild swimming sites in the UK safer and more accessible, finds a new study led by @ProfJoyceHarper @UCL_IfWH @UCLPopHealthSci https://t.co/UQ5q3tCVCH

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Baroness Gillian Merron, the Health Minister responsible for life sciences and innovation @DHSCgovuk, toured some of @UCL’s life sciences facilities to see first-hand how research is helping to tackle some of the world’s biggest health challenges https://t.co/9qYEjeyGBi