The Olympian efforts of Dr Helen Warren in the field of blogging were rewarded with the presentation of a special piece of silverwear this week.
Helen, a Research Assistant in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistics at the School, provided a commentary throughout the London 2012 Games for the Chariot news blog, sharing her experiences as both a volunteer and spectator. Read more
A delegate’s view of the Society for Social Medicine 2012 Conference plenary speakers by Jessica Sheringham (from the joint UCL-LSHTM local organising committee) Martin Gorsky’s Capital Connections history of Society for Social Medicine conferences in London was a revelation for newer members. Our origins as a “more or less informal” club with 30 founding members seemed a long way from the 2012 conference of 300 delegates in the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s John Snow lecture theatre. Read more
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have helped produce a study revealing that most post-war baby boomers had at least one medical condition which required regular GP visits in the run-up to retirement. According to the latest findings from the UK’s oldest birth cohort - the Medical Research Council’s National Survey of Health and Development – common disorders including heart disease, diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, osteoporosis and kidney problems affected five in every six people between the ages of 60 and 64. Read more
Submitted by Dr Sridhar Venkatapuram, a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in ethics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Earlier this year, I was awarded a Wellcome Trust fellowship at POST, the Parliament Office of Science and Technology. This office produces briefing papers and reports on cutting edge scientific issues for both the House of Commons and Lords. For a little over four months, I worked on a briefing paper titled ‘Measuring National Wellbeing’, which was published today. If you are from the UK, you may recognise this as having to do with the press coverage of David Cameron’s happiness agenda. Or, you may have heard of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness index. But there is much more to the story - after all, what does happiness have to do with science? Read more
As a new study on the use of tranexamic acid to treat trauma patients for bleeding is published in the BMJ, the researchers have produced a comic designed to be useful to emergency teams.
Read more about the comic and the research…
So farewell then, the London 2012 Paralympics. But there were many moments to savour and inspirational stories.
Here are a few photos from Paula Fentiman's day at the Paralympics:
On the right is a shot of the Paralympic emblem, arranged on the grass on the side of the Aquatics Centre at the Stratford site. Read more
Fresh off the printing press this month is Tropical Diseases – an Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America (July 2012, Vol. 26, No. 2), edited by School alumnus and current Governor, Professor Alimuddin Zumla, alongside Professor Jennifer Keiser of the Swiss Tropical Institute.
Its subject is timely - every year 15 million people die from tropical diseases, and an increasing number of them are in countries and regions that were once unaffected - such as the UK, Europe and the USA. Read more
A scheme by students at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to market glasses to children and young people in Africa is being put forward for a major business prize.
The proposal, to use social marketing to break down the stigma attached to wearing glasses in Kenya through education, was put forward by a team of students, including five from the School, alongside two from the University Of Cape Town Graduate School Of Business and one from the Harvard School of Public Health. Read more
School researchers take the stage at Cheltenham Science Festival
June 14, 2013
Free bus travel for young people benefits environment and may reduce road traffic injuries
June 13, 2013
Walking or cycling to work linked to health benefits in India
June 12, 2013
Nick Black and Ben Goldacre named among clinical leaders making greatest impact
June 12, 2013
UK launches global panel to fight hunger
June 10, 2013
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