A Medical Research Council (MRC) funded study, published in this week's edition of The Lancet, has provided the most detailed and comprehensive assessment to date of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR)

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine report findings from a study of reproduction following service in the Gulf War in the early '90s in the British Medical Journal

The largest study of UK Gulf war servicemen, published today in BMC Public Health confirms that forces deployed to the first Gulf War report more ill health than veterans who did not serve there.

As the British Grand Prix gets underway this weekend, a team of international public health experts is calling for a comprehensive ban on sports sponsorship by transnational tobacco companies (TTCs

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will today publish interim findings relating to how the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is being implemented in four African

LSHTM's Public and Environmental Health Research Unit (PEHRU) has won a WHO Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of its outstanding contribution towards tobacco control.

Fears that dead bodies will spread infection and disease following natural disasters are largely baseless, and simply serve to prolong the suffering of surviving friends and family members, accordi

British American Tobacco engaged in underhand practices including smuggling, and exploited the weak political and economic situation in the former Soviet Union to establish cigarette imports and lo

A highly confidential project which will improve public access to millions of pages of sensitive and potentially incriminating documents relating to British American Tobacco (BAT) is officially lau

A new in-depth report published today concludes there is no justification for the idea that current standards of home cleaning and home hygiene are a factor in the rise in allergies.

The parents of babies involved in clinical trials who die during the trial period may be more willing to agree to their children undergoing post-mortem (PM) examinations than doctors believe them t

A popular radio soap opera, chronicling the day-to-day lives of a group of rural Gambians and very much like the English radio show 'the Archers', is helping to educate Gambians about how they can