Extending flu vaccination to UK children may be a cost-effective way to reduce the burden of the disease in the general population, according to research published in

But introducing beds just one month earlier might have halved the outbreak, according to new analysis.

A clinical trial coordinated by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to assess the safety and immunogenicity of a new vaccine against Ebola started this week in Kambia District, north-western Sierra Leone.

Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone in December 2014, has been readmitted to an isolation unit in the Royal Free Hospital due to "an unusual late co

The 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology has been awarded to three scientists for their work on drug d

A new report on the effectiveness of drugs used for the treatment and prevention of influenza states that UK hospitals must be

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has been ranked 3rd in the world for social sciences and public health, by 

Home visits by volunteers trained to deliver important health messages to women during pregnancy and in the first days of a baby's life did not appear to improve newborn survival in rural Tanzania,

Experts say risk is low but call for increased awareness.

Low-income housing that can improve quality of life and wellbeing while also achieving low environmental impact will be investigated in a new project led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Leading economists from the School are among 267 experts in 44 countries who have made a declaration that universal health coverage is a smart, affordable investment to save millions of lives, protect livelihoods and strengthen economies.

China has world?s second largest number of TB cases, and plans to scale up use of medication monitors in the next five years.