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2008 Press Releases

January July February August March September April October May November June December December London School of Hygiene ranked in top 3 in Times Higher's Research Assessment Exercise league table - 18.12.08 Promising trials of malaria vaccine in East Africa lead to calls for Phase 3 development - 8.12.08 November Combination therapies may be almost as effective as insecticide-treated bednets in preventing malaria in areas of low transmission - 25.11.08 Health study in northern Uganda calls for improved services for Internally Displaced Persons - 24.11.08 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to share in US$32 million boost for CREATE Consortium - 19.11.08 The London School of Hygiene receives two $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grants for Innovative Global Health Research by Dr. Mia Crampin and Professor Brendan Wren - 06.11.08 October Dramatic fall in malaria in The Gambia raises possibility of elimination in parts of Africa - 31.10.08 Northerners' hands up to three times dirtier than those living in the South - 15.10.08 People lacking vital antioxidants and exposed to sunlight more likely to develop eye disease later in life - 13.10.08 LSHTM plays key role in launch of Movement for Global Mental Health - 10.10.08 The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles enters third decade - 3.10.08 Gastrostomy placement cost effective in children with neurological impairment - 2.10.08 September Birth size is a marker of susceptibility to breast cancer later in life - 30.09.08 7 million pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa infected with hookworms - 16.09.08 30 Years on from Alma-Ata and the pendulum is swinging back to Primary Health Care - 11.09.08 School team commended at Learning Technologist of the Year Awards - 10.09.08 'Dodgy dossier' partly to blame for failure of war against malaria in the tropics - 10.09.08 August Eat oily fish at least once a week to protect your eyesight in old age - 08.08.08 July First worldwide analysis of cancer survival finds wide variation between countries - 17.07.08 Malaria prevention in schools reduces anaemia and improves educational potential in Kenyan schoolchildren - 11.07.08 June School academic wins award from World Health Organisation - 26.06.08 John Cleland awarded CBE for services to social science - 18.06.08 European businesses not properly advised on how to prepare for flu pandemic - 11.06.08 Scientists demonstrate feasibility of preventing malaria parasite from becoming sexually mature - 02.06.08 Highest ever levels of post-traumatic stress found in Uganda - 02.06.08 May Professor Virginia Berridge contributes to BMJ debate on polyclinics - 23.05.08 Global food crisis and transport policy are linked - 16.05.08 Blind for blindness: London doctor to spend 24 hours living as blind person to raise money for blind children - 13.05.08 April Virginia Berridge delivers Gresham lecture on the origins of the NHS - 30.04.08 School's overseas partner in India wins MacArthur Award - 23.04.08 New London Centre for International Development Opens - 22.4.08 Social deprivation linked to four-fold increase in risk of serious injury in child pedestrians - 01.04.08 March Brian Greenwood wins Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize - 26.03.08 London School of Hygiene celebrates $60 million in new Gates funding to fight malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis - 07.03.08 February Congestion charge has modest impact on the life expectancy of Londoners - 29.02.08 Sanitation paper shortlisted for Lancet Paper of the Year, 2007 - 14.02.08 January Number of Russian women smokers has doubled since Soviet collapse - 27.01.08 One third of stunting and a quarter of deaths among under 3s in poor countries could be prevented - 17.01.08 Keeping young South Africans in school: A "social vaccine" against AIDS - 16.01.08 HIV shifting from most to least educated in sub-Saharan Africa - 15.01.08 New study: US ranks last among other industrialized nations on preventable deaths - 08.01.08