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New evidence on how to deliver health care for all — particularly in poor countries — was presented at a conference held in London. Kara Hanson of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

When breakthrough discoveries are made in health science — which could save many lives — they are often not put into routine practice around the world until many years later, according to Andy Haines,

A report just published by the UK-based International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene has highlighted three key measures for preventing the transmission of life-threatening infections such as diarrho

The huge success of the Distance Learning Programme from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine was celebrated recently at the School building in Keppel Street with a party, followed th

Chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes are now so common in poor countries that they threaten the Millennium Development Goals for achieving significant progress on infectious diseases, a

Health workers in the developing world may need to test adolescents routinely for HIV acquired “vertically” — through mother-to-child transmission, following findings published in the medi

With hundreds of thousands of people at risk of dying in unexpected heat-waves the latest advice on protecting yourself has been reviewed by a joint Canadian/British team in The Lancet medical journal

It will soon be easier to track the public health expert you need in around 190 different countries thanks to a Rockefeller Foundation grant awarded to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medici

Professor Polly Roy discusses her team’s new vaccines for bluetongue: a lethal midge-borne disease of sheep, which is related to human diseases, including rotavirus infection. The vaccines — one

Infectious disease such as diarrhoea and pneumonia have killed 80 per cent of around 300 000 people dying as a direct result of the war in Darfur, according to study published in The Lancet from a Bel

] Professor Anne Mills of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine explains to Peter Goodwin how health systems development in Thailand has achieved healthcare coverage for all citizens, irr

Peter Godfrey-Faussett of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, co-chair of a session on tuberculosis control at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 58th Annual Meeting