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• 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.

• Help spread the message this Organ Donation Week

  More than 8,000 people are waiting for a life-changing transplant and, sadly, donor and transplant numbers have fallen. This Organ Donation Week we want to make sure as many people as possible know how important their decision could be for people on the waiting list.

• How are we doing? Parent and Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) survey

  The National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) is asking all children and young people (8-19 years) and parents/carers (of children under 8 years old) who have received diabetes care in the past 6 months, to fill in the survey.

• Second generation CAR T-cell therapy trialled in patients

  A new CAR T-cell therapy developed by scientists at UCL has fewer ‘toxic’ side-effects and is more durable, targeting and killing cancer cells for longer, concludes a Phase 1 clinical trial of patients at UCLH.

• Patient story - Sam Ahern

  When Sam Ahern was born 24 years ago, she was the smallest baby our neonatal unit had ever looked after. Now an accomplished musician and fine art student, she has gone back to meet the team that helped her win her fight for life.

• Dr J. S. Risien Russell, one of Britain’s first black consultants, commemorated with portrait

  The new artwork celebrates the pioneering researcher, teacher and neurology consultant at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

• 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.

• Introducing EpicCare Link site administrator

  You now need a registered site administrator to access EpicCare Link UCLH for your practice or service. If your site doesn’t have a registered administrator, you may lose access to EpicCare Link UCLH.

• Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to COVID-19

  Neurological complications of COVID-19 can include delirium, brain inflammation, stroke and nerve damage, finds a new UCL and UCLH-led study.

• 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.