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Call for Europe to take the lead in revitalising family planning agenda in world's poorest countries

Thursday 2 November 2006

A leading population expert will today make a plea for a revitalisation of the family planning agenda in the world's poorest countries, cautioning that soaring population rates are now a bigger thr

First global analysis of sexual behaviour

Monday 30 October 2006

A study which provides the first ever comprehensive analysis of sexual behaviour around the world is published today in The Lancet, as part of a major series on sexual and reproductive hea

Drinks industry borrowing tactics from big tobacco to derail European alcohol strategy

Friday 20 October 2006

European commissioners will miss a valuable opportunity to improve the health of their fellow citizens if they give in to pressure from the alcohol industry and vote not to adopt a European alcohol

Car manufacturers acting in the interests of profits rather than safety in poor countries say scientists

Friday 6 October 2006

A study published today in the BMJ journal Injury Prevention calls for greater vigilance in ensuring that car manufacturers are fully committed to promoting road safety interventions that are based

Call for global action over continued huge burden of maternal deaths in poor countries

Wednesday 27 September 2006

Experts will issue a stark warning today that Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, which aims to reduce maternal deaths by 75% before 2015, will only be met with intensified commitment and a focus

Policy makers get timely advice on how to help young people avoid HIV infection

Thursday 17 August 2006

David Ross and a number of colleagues from within the School have been actively involved with colleagues in the World Health Organisation (WHO) and others in a UNAIDS Task Team on Young People revi

Waist-hip ratio should replace body mass index as indicator of mortality risk in older people

Tuesday 8 August 2006

Older people with high waist-hip ratios (WHRs) have a higher mortality risk than those with a high body mass index, or BMI, a new study reveals.

Call for data on reuse of surgical instruments to allay fears over risk of vCJD transmission

Wednesday 2 August 2006

A study published today in the online edition of the Journal of the Royal Society Interface has been exploring the likelihood that vCJD might be spread via the reuse of surgical instruments, and ca

Research reveals tobacco company's role in China's cigarette smuggling crisis

Tuesday 18 July 2006

New research based on the internal documents of one of the world's biggest tobacco companies, British American Tobacco (BAT), suggests that it been complicit in the smuggling of tobacco into China

Children in families with no adult in paid employment 13 times more likely to die from injury or poisoning

Friday 7 July 2006

Children in the UK whose parents are long-term unemployed or who have never worked are thirteen times more likely than children at the top end of the socio-economic scale to die from an injury or p

Include Indigenous communities in MDGs or watch them die a slow death, experts warn

Friday 26 May 2006

We are dangerously close to killing off the world's Indigenous populations, and losing forever the invaluable knowledge these communities have about medicines and the ecosystem.

Call for countries tackling their HIV epidemics to learn from one other on the 25th anniversary of the pandemic

Thursday 18 May 2006

A landmark new book, which compares different countries' responses to their HIV epidemic, twenty five years after the first reported AIDS cases in 1981, is published today.