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10.8 million children in poor countries are dying unnecessarily because simple, life-saving interventions costing just a few pence are not being delivered to the mothers and children who desperatel

A new study carried out by the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has revealed that the future crisis in family support for older people so feared b

The simple act of washing your hands with soap, which reduces the risk of diarrhoea by half in both developed and developing countries, could also be the key to preventing the spread of acute respi

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is marking World No Tobacco Day on 31 May with a four-day exhibition of photographs and images exploring this year's theme of 'Film and Fashion'

Handwashing could prevent more than one million deaths a year from diarrhoeal diseases.

Public health experts at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have today called for all hospitals to move towards becoming smoke free, and develop initiatives aimed at encouraging s

The public health community and the Government need to learn the lessons of history in formulating effective approaches to reducing the adverse health effects of tobacco consumption, delegates at a

A report released today in the 'American Journal of Ophthalmology' asks if we can afford the increasing burden of treatable blindness.

A leading expert in the history of science and medicine will today challenge the conventional view that it was the discovery of the gonococcus, or micro-organism which causes gonorrhoea, which led

Cutting your daily intake of food by just 100 calories - the equivalent of just one biscuit, or a three fewer bites of a fast food hamburger - will stop you gaining weight and could halt the global

A leading epidemiologist and population health expert today called for urgent action to improve the health of Scots, after research revealed that death rates among Scots of working age (15-74 years