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A new “tool-kit” for tackling TB in Zambia is being introduced by researchers working with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Zambia. Ginny Bond tells

Norman Wolmark on the study’s frustrating but unequivocal results showing that bevacizumab did not extend disease-free survival in adjuvant therapy for early colon cancer at 3 years, even though

LONDON—Inequalities in cancer care delivery and overall spending have had a big impact on cancer survival rates in Europe, according to Michel Coleman, Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics a

Carlton Evans of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine explains to Peter Goodwin how his research project, supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), has succeed

Delia Boccia of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tells Peter Goodwin about her research findings in Zambia which have revealed that the factor within impoverised communities which ha

With a growing threat from tuberculosis around the world—made worse by the spread of HIV/AIDS—there is an urgent need for new diagnostic tests for TB which are more appropriate for use in communities

BARCELONA, SPAIN—Adding cetuximab to gemcitabine/oxaliplatin (GEMOX) chemotherapy controlled disease among two thirds of patients with advanced biliary cancer in a trial reported at the World Congress

Adding the oral drug capecitabine to a regimen of bevacizumab plus irinotecan was as effective as adding infusions of 5FU/folinic acid for patients who had metastatic colorectal cancer in a phase II s

Researchers from London have found no evidence that the nutritional content of organically produced foods is any better than in conventionally farmed products. Alan Dangour of the London School of Hyg

Treatment of advanced pancreatic islet cell tumors with sunitinib has doubled progression-free survival in patients whose options have been very limited up to now, according to French researchers repo

David Stuckler of Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tells Peter Goodwin about the findings of his study, just published in the Lancet, showing that increasing ec

Our homes are full of potential ways of getting ill, or even dying—according to a report published by the International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene. Peter Goodwin hears from one of the authors, S