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The UK's Department for International Development and the Wellcome Trust have together announced £1.34 million funding for five research programmes, two of which are led by the London School of Hyg

Scientists studying a bacterial sample from a World War I soldier have uncovered useful new information about dysentery, a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of children under five each year in developing nations.

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In the first in-depth study of its kind of the Maasai people of Tanzania, research led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has revealed that the health of Maasai children is ver

An international research consortium which includes the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and is led by the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (ITM) will assess whether treatm