A public-health article published online by The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) suggests that Philip Morris, one of the world's leading tobacco manufactur

A major Medical Research Council (MRC) trial in general practice in the UK has found that in-depth comprehensive assessment of older people is of little benefit.

A team of researchers led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will today announce a major breakthrough in the treatment and control of trachoma - the second most common cause of

A major, international Medical Research Council (MRC) trial has found that a routine treatment for patients with head injuries, widely used around the world for the last 30 years, does not improve

Myths about the infectious disease threat posed by dead bodies could lead to insensitive and inappropriate treatment of victims' bodies following the floods in Haiti, and need to be checked, accord

The staging of the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai this weekend confirms Formula One motor racing as a leading vector of the global tobacco pandemic, and threatens to make a mockery of China's signi

A Medical Research Council (MRC) funded study, published in this week's edition of The Lancet, has provided the most detailed and comprehensive assessment to date of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR)

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine report findings from a study of reproduction following service in the Gulf War in the early '90s in the British Medical Journal

The largest study of UK Gulf war servicemen, published today in BMC Public Health confirms that forces deployed to the first Gulf War report more ill health than veterans who did not serve there.

As the British Grand Prix gets underway this weekend, a team of international public health experts is calling for a comprehensive ban on sports sponsorship by transnational tobacco companies (TTCs

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will today publish interim findings relating to how the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is being implemented in four African

LSHTM's Public and Environmental Health Research Unit (PEHRU) has won a WHO Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of its outstanding contribution towards tobacco control.