Dr James Logan investigates how the secrets of insect anatomy are being used to save lives

The Director of the School, Professor Peter Piot, will be awarded the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize for Medical Research, the Government of Japan announced today.

Richard Smith, Professor of Health System Economics and Dean of the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the School, makes the case for urgent action on antibiotic resistance.

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has received a positive review from the UK's Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, which has now been published on the Agency's website.

A new scholarship fund to support the training of future leaders in the field of mental health has been announced at the School.

Survival for women with late-stage breast cancer is lower in the UK than in comparable countries, according to research published in the British Journal of Cancer.

Starch-based intravenous (IV) fluids used by the NHS to treat seriously ill patients are causing unnecessary deaths, according to a new Cochrane systematic review by researchers at the School.

Patients recovering from heart attacks are less likely to survive if they live in an area with high levels of road traffic pollution, according to a new study.

New research detects changes to odour receptors in dengue-transmitting mosquitoes.

Lung cancer survival rates in the UK are lower than in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Sweden according to a new international study published in Thorax.

Paul Fine, Professor of Communicable Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, argues that we need to look at TB vaccine trial findings in a wider context.

John Snow traced the source of a deadly cholera outbreak in 1850s London to a water pump in Soho.