Paul Fine, Professor of Communicable Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, argues that we need to look at TB vaccine trial findings in a wider context.

John Snow traced the source of a deadly cholera outbreak in 1850s London to a water pump in Soho.

The School has teamed up with London partners to launch a new research initiative to tackle NTDs which affect more than one billion of the world's poorest people.

The number of people in England adding salt to food at the table fell by more than a quarter in the five years following a national campaign, according to research published in the British Journal of Nutrition.

One year since launch of multi-million dollar fund to tackle various infectious diseases which affect more than one billion of the world's poorest people.

Mobile phones and portable computers have great potential to help people on antiretroviral therapy or those trying to quit smoking, but not all uses of mobile-health technology are beneficial, according to new research published in PLOS Medicine.

Leading eye health expert Professor Clare Gilbert has won the 2012 Pisart Vision Award in recognition of her work to put prevention of childhood blindness at the top of the global eye care agenda.

Global efforts to eliminate the most common infectious cause of blindness in the world have taken an ambitious step forward as mapping of the disease trachoma begins in Ethiopia this week.

Preliminary results from the first month of the UK Flusurvey suggest there is no evidence for “man flu” and that reports of flu-like illness are highest among children.

Researchers have shown that the global epidemic of Clostridium difficile was caused by two-closely-related strains that became resistant to a frontline antibiotic.

Researchers from the School have been awarded funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the

Many people will be much poorer than they had expected in their older age and this has profound implications for the health of our ageing population, according to an