Fears that dead bodies will spread infection and disease following natural disasters are largely baseless, and simply serve to prolong the suffering of surviving friends and family members, accordi

British American Tobacco engaged in underhand practices including smuggling, and exploited the weak political and economic situation in the former Soviet Union to establish cigarette imports and lo

A highly confidential project which will improve public access to millions of pages of sensitive and potentially incriminating documents relating to British American Tobacco (BAT) is officially lau

A new in-depth report published today concludes there is no justification for the idea that current standards of home cleaning and home hygiene are a factor in the rise in allergies.

The parents of babies involved in clinical trials who die during the trial period may be more willing to agree to their children undergoing post-mortem (PM) examinations than doctors believe them t

A popular radio soap opera, chronicling the day-to-day lives of a group of rural Gambians and very much like the English radio show 'the Archers', is helping to educate Gambians about how they can

Press launch: World report on road traffic injury prevention launched today at a press event in the Goldsmith's Theatre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medici

The importation of resistance to the anti-malarial drugs pyrimethamine and sulphadoxine is far more widespread than previously thought, a study published in

Eight out of ten children who die from malnutrition in hospital in the developing world are doing so unnecessarily, and as the result of errors on the part of doctors and nurses, a study in the med

The first epidemiological study to be conducted in the UK on reproduction following service in the Gulf War in the early '90s is published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Two out of three (60%) grandparents in the UK see their grandchild or grandchildren every week and slightly more (64%) live no more than half an hour away.

At least one out of four older people with a visual impairment is suffering unnecessarily because interventions which are safe and effective are not being delivered to them, a new study published i