Martin McKee discusses the risks of e-cigarettes for BBC News Online: “The health community is completely divided on the subject of whether electronic cigarettes are safer than real cigarettes. While the signatories to this letter are clearly supportive, the World … Continue reading
Some innovative ways universities have introduced or are thinking of introducing to help relieve the stress of exams include: bubble wrap popping stations (University of Leicester student union),petting zoos (University of Bath) and even bouncy castles and massages (PETA’s alternatives … Continue reading
Dr Nashid Kamal from Bangladesh studied for her PhD in Medical Demography at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, graduating in 1996. She is currently Adjunct Professor in the School of Business, BRAC University, and in the Department … Continue reading
Joy Lawn talks to The Guardian, New York Times, Al Jazeera, AFP, Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Inter Press Service about her new research showing that 5.5 million newborns die each year without being recorded: “In most countries stillbirths do … Continue reading
Fiona Majorin is a research assistant and PhD student with the Environmental Health Group. Her research explores child faeces disposal as a pathway in disease transmission. Little work has been done in this area to date and subsequently Fiona and others … Continue reading
Dr Sidat from Mozambique studied the MSc in Infectious Diseases by Distance Learning, graduating in 2000. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique. “I decided to study the MSc by Distance … Continue reading
Tony Barnett speaks to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme (42m 14s) about the threat of pandemics: “Let’s remember that we’re still living through the longest wave epidemic that we’ve seen, indeed pandemic, which has been going on for 30 or … Continue reading
Cathepsin-L can resist lysis by human serum in Trypanosoma brucei brucei. PLoS Pathogens 10: e1004130 Featured at: LSHTM, Wellcome Trust See also: commentary in Microbial Cell 1:270-2 Most African trypanosomes, including the veterinary species Trypanosoma brucei brucei and T. congolense (causative agents of the … Continue reading
Image caption: Count and Spell Color Recognition Beanbags – NUMBERS by Cheryl. License: some rights reserved_CC_BY_SA 2.0 Last month we had over 16, 500 downloads of full text papers from LSHTM Research Online with Germany, China and the US the … Continue reading
Valéry Ridde et Emilie Robert «Je pense que la Banque était idéologique». Dans un entretien au Guardian début avril 2014 [i], le président de la Banque Mondiale surprit tout le monde en affirmant que son institution avait promu pendant des … Continue reading