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Researchers discover air pollution particles hitching a ride around the body on red blood cells, but wearing a face mask reduces the threat. tiny.cc/ukjt001 @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social

Research carried out by Queen Mary academics, including Tom Powles, has led to NICE approving a new treatment for people with advanced bladder cancer.

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BEST LONDON ATTRACTIONS FOR 5-12 YEAR OLDS The Capital's Top Things to do with Kids as Nominated by YOU in the Time Well Spent Awards 2025

Vote for the Centre of the Cell! Our wonderful colleagues have been nominated for a Time Well Spent award! The Centre of the Cell is recognised as a fantastic and 'sneakily educational' destination for children in London.
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Defining Lifetime Risk Thresholds for Breast Cancer Surgical Prevention This economic evaluation defines the lifetime breast cancer risk thresholds for risk-reducing mastectomy to be cost-effective compared with nonsurgical alternatives for breast cancer prevention.

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Prof Manchanda said: "We for the first time define the risk at which we should offer mastectomy. This could potentially prevent can potentially prevent ~6500 breast cancer cases annually in UK women”.

Professor Ranjit Manchanda, Dr Rosa Legood, with colleagues from Manchester University and Peking University created a new economic evaluation model to accurately predict the level of risk that would make mastectomy a more cost-effective treatment.

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More women at higher risk of breast cancer should be offered a mastectomy, according to researchers at @qmul.bsky.social and @lshtm.bsky.social New analysis has found it's cost-effective way of reducing risk of developing breast cancer compared to breast screening and medication.

World Brain Day – interview with Professor Claudia Cooper Professor Claudia Cooper is a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist and the co-Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Dementia and Neurodegeneration at Queen Mary (DeNPRU-QM). To celebrate World Brain Day 2025, we spoke to her about DeNPRU-QM’s research and its impact on people affected by dementia

To mark World Brain Day, our Co-Director @claudiacooper.bsky.social spoke to @qmulfmd.bsky.social about:

🔵 How #denpruQM fits into the wider @nihr.bsky.social community
🟢 Our research and its impact
🟠 What gives her hope for the future

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Could a breath test detect blood cancer? - Barts Cancer Institute - Queen Mary University of London Molecules exhaled in the breath may provide clues to detect blood cancer, according to new research by scientists at Barts Cancer Institute. The findings could enable the development of a blood cancer...

📰Could a breath test detect blood cancer? New research from @richeslab.bsky.social ‬funded by @bartscharity.bsky.social suggests molecules exhaled in the breath might enable development of a simple, low-cost test to diagnose lymphoma.

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Happy to share our paper investigating the feasibility and accuracy of perioperative continuous glucose monitoring in patients undergoing major surgery.
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Effects of a brief digital problem-solving intervention on depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war: a crossover, randomised controlled trial Our data suggest that a brief problem-solving DMHI, efficiently implemented in schools, could reduce internalising symptoms in refugee Ukrainian youths. After context-specific adaptations, DMHIs could...

Read more about the research in the published article: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Senior author Professor Dennis Ougrin from the Youth Resilience Research Unit @qmul-wiph.bsky.social said: "At a time when millions of displaced young people remain underserved, this research suggests a promising step toward meeting their urgent mental health needs - one mobile device at a time.”

Professor JR Weisz from Harvard University said: "Children displaced by conflict are at elevated risk of long-term psychological harm, but access to mental health services is often limited or non-existent. In our trial we found the effects of our 30-minute intervention lasted for four months."

The results, published today in The Lancet Primary Care, found that this brief mental health intervention reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety in displaced young people at one month and four months after the 30-minute intervention.

They created a Ukrainian-language version of an evidence-based digital mental health intervention called Project SOLVE. Delivered in schools through mobile devices, it teaches problem solving by providing strategies for solving everyday problems, such as school stress and interpersonal conflict.

An international group of researchers, led by Professor JR Weisz from @harvard.edu and colleagues including senior author Professor Dennis Ougrin from @qmul.bsky.social, tested a digital mental health intervention with 709 Ukrainian students, aged 10-18, who had been displaced to Poland.

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Short-term digital mental health interventions reduces depression and anxiety in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war - a first of its kind randomised controlled trial found delivering a problem solving digital mental health intervention significantly reduced symptoms.

Well done to all the students and staff from our Institute of Dentistry who took part!

Are you interested in healthcare leadership? Watch Rahma Hegy, the Barts and the London Students' Association President @qmulfmd.bsky.social share her experiences of taking our Healthcare Leadership Foundations online short course! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rccy... bit.ly/healthcare-l....

Many congratulations, Professor O'Toole!

Congratulations to our Bioinformatician Beth Hughes on getting paper of the year at today's @blizardinstitute.bsky.social symposium for work during her PhD. @qmul.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social

Cells’ recycling system plays a surprising role in shaping immune cells DNA - Barts Cancer Institute - Queen Mary University of London Scientists have uncovered how bowel cancer cells imitate our gut’s natural healing processes to adapt, spread and grow. The findings researchers at Barts Cancer Institute could lead to new treatment s...

📰 Cells’ recycling system (autophagy) plays a surprising role in shaping immune cell DNA, new research from the BCI shows.

The findings could have implications for the development of certain #bloodcancer and #autoimmune diseases.

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Good intentions, risks and missed opportunities: What the NHS plan means for health and care inequalities - Health Equity Evidence Centre In the 10 Year Health Plan there are notable wins for health inequalities advocates, especially in funding and tackling smoking and obesity, but there are risks of inadvertently increasing inequalitie...

Dr John Ford, leader of Queen Mary's Health Equity Evidence Centre, gives a run-down of the hits and the misses for health inequalities in the UK's 10 year Health Plan.
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The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Celebrating Radical Publishing in the 21st Century

Her book explores how not listening to patients has been ingrained in medicine from its inception, and discusses the ways this approach widens entrenched health inequalities. Find out more at breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com

We're delighted that the new book, 'Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing', by @drrageshri.bsky.social has been long-listed for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing!

Queen Mary University set to develop significant life sciences capacity in East London Queen Mary University of London has today, 20 June 2025, signed an agreement with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to acquire significant land in Whitechapel adjacent to its existing ca...

Queen Mary has acquired significant land in Whitechapel adjacent to its existing campus, in an agreement signed with DHSC @healthmedia.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy.

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Global evolution of inflammatory bowel disease across epidemiologic stages - Nature An analysis of data from 522 population-based studies encompassing 82 global regions and spanning more than a century (1920–2024) shows spatiotemporal transitions across epidemiologic stages 1 to 3 of...

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The research, published in Nature, gives an opportunity for health-care systems to pinpoint where their region sits on this trajectory and provides a clear roadmap for anticipating and managing the growing burden of IBD today and in the future.

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A new study by an international consortium of researchers including Professor Paul Kelly and Dr Phoebe Hodges from @blizardinstitute.bsky.social has identified the 4 epidemiological stages of Inflammatory bowel disease (#IBD).

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