Evaluation of a malaria project shows encouraging improvements in community-based health care.

One in five women with breast cancer who opt for breast conserving surgery rather than a mastectomy have a reoperation, according to a national study published on

There are almost 12,000 preventable deaths in hospital every year due to problems with care but this is less than a third of the number previously thought, according to new research led by the Lond

No Time To Lose, the new book by Professor Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, was launched at a seminar on 5 July with The Lancet.

First national in-depth study of deaths in India finds suicide is a leading cause of death in young women and men

Research led by scientists at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has identified a gene that controls susceptibility to drug treatment in Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite responsib

People’s weight – not just population size – should be taken into account when planning how to deal with increasing pressure on the planet’s dwindling resources, say researchers from the London Sch

Older people who take omega-3 fish oil supplements are probably not reducing their chances of losing cognitive function, according to a new

Pregnant women are benefiting from new rapid tests for syphilis in six countries thanks to influential research by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Giving young children medicine once a month during the rainy season to protect them against malaria could prevent tens of thousands of deaths each year in some areas of Africa, according to new res

Following the confirmation of an extremely rare case of rabies in London, Dr Ron Behrens, Senior Lecturer in Tropical and Travel Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, expl

School researchers get the itch for Embarrassing Bodies experiments.