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• Fiona Farrell - clinical physiologist at the Sir William Gowers Unit

  Fiona Farrell works at the Sir William Gowers Unit, a specialist treatment centre for epilepsy and related disorders.

• Sally Daniels - sonographer

  Fast-paced, specialist work and good interaction with patients… all in a day’s work for sonographer Sally Daniels

• Dr Shanom Ali - clinical microbiologist

  My day starts... With porridge and a cup of tea at my home in rural Northamptonshire, around 100 miles north from London. I take the train into London every day. What does a microbiologist do? In a…

• UCLH thanks The Francis Crick Institute for its role in running a Covid-19 vaccination centre

  After delivering more than 80,000 vaccines, the vaccination centre at The Francis Crick Institute closes its doors today (13 August 2021) with the last vaccination taking place at 7pm.

• UCLH begins clinical trial of Alzheimer’s drug developed at UCL

  A clinical trial of a new drug candidate for Alzheimer’s disease which has been developed at UCL in partnership with the pharmaceutical company Eisai has begun at UCLH with participants now being screened.

• New national study on long-term health impacts of COVID-19 launched

  UCLH will be part of a major UK research study looking at the long-term health impacts of COVID-19.

• Macmillan Support and Information Service hosts its first twitter chat on cancer-related fatigue

  A summary of a twitter chat hosted by the Macmillan Support and Information Service on cancer-related fatigue with advice about to manage it.

• Antibody levels vary according to vaccine type and previous infection with COVID-19

  Two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine induce lower levels of antibodies that are able to recognise and fight the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) than against other strains, according to laboratory findings from UCLH and the Francis Crick Institute.

• History of The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

  The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine was founded as the London Homoeopathic Hospital by Dr Frederick Foster Hervey Quin in 1849. He was among the first doctors to practice homeopathy…

• Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine recipients have lower antibody levels targeting the variant first discovered in India

  Levels of antibodies in the blood of vaccinated people that are able to recognise and fight the new SARS-CoV-2 variant first discovered in India are on average lower than those against previously circulating variants in the UK.