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• Preterm babies do not habituate to repeated pain

  Preterm infants do not get used to repeated pain in the way that full-term infants, children and adults do habituate to pain, finds a study at UCLH and UCL.

• Well done #teamUCLH on a fantastic London Landmarks Half Marathon

  Well done to everyone who ran to support UCLH in the iconic London Landmarks Half Marathon on 2 April!

• ‘Virtual wards’ help patients to recover at home

  The UCLH@Home service is helping patients like 80-year-old Margaret Stone to continue their recovery in their own home under the care of their hospital team.

• Meet Matthew and Lillyanne

  Matthew Fielden and Lillyanne Tran volunteer in the cognitive disorders outpatients’ clinic at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

• Robotic surgery for bladder cancer improves patient recovery time

  Robot-assisted surgery used to perform bladder cancer removal and reconstruction enables patients to recover far more quickly and spend significantly less time in hospital, concludes a trial led by UCLH, UCL and the University of Sheffield.

• Research seeking greater understanding of rare blood cancer and how to treat it

  A new research study at UCLH and UCL will investigate how a rare type of blood cancer develops and what types of treatment may be effective for patients.

• National leadership award for UCLH research practitioner

  UCLH research manager Sarah Taylor has won a national leadership award for her work to develop and train research staff.

• National dementia research role for UCLH clinician

  UCLH consultant neurologist Dr Catherine Mummery has been announced as the new Chair of the NIHR Dementia Translational Research Collaboration.

• Thoracic Surgery – Information for patients: Having a thymectomy procedure

  Patient information for patients having a thymectomy procedure.

• Thoracic Surgery – Information for patients: Having surgery via median sternotomy

  Information for patients having a surgery via median sternotomy.