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News article 5 Sep 2014 LSTM hosts the 2014 European Course on Tropical Epidemiology (ECTE) For the last three weeks LSTM has been playing host to the 33rd annual European Course on Tropical Epidemiology (ECTE). It is the 3rd time...
News article 3 Sep 2014 Household air pollution puts more than one in three people worldwide at risk of ill health and early death Household air pollution, caused by the use of plant-based or coal fuel for cooking, heating, and lighting, is putting nearly three billion people...
News article 29 Aug 2014 LSTM students present their research to the APPG for Malaria and NTDs Three students from LSTM have been invited to present an outline of their current area of research to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria...
News article 29 Aug 2014 LSTM students present their research to the APPG for Malaria and NTDs Three students from LSTM have been invited to present an outline of their current area of research to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria...
News article 28 Aug 2014 CMNH helping to reduce maternal deaths in Kenya Representatives from LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) are in attendance at a high profile consultative meeting in Kenya this week...
News article 20 Aug 2014 Estimated risk of placental infection and low birthweight attributable to Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Africa in 2010: a modelling study Plasmodium falciparum infection during pregnancy leads to adverse outcomes including low birthweight. Infection during pregnancy leads to...
News article 20 Aug 2014 Wellcome Trust visits LSTM This week LSTM played host to the Director of the Wellcome Trust, Dr Jeremy Farrar and several members of his team. After spending the morning with...
News article 20 Aug 2014 World Mosquito Day Today is World Mosquito Day, first celebrated on 20 August 1897, when British doctor Ronald Ross made the link that it was female mosquitoes that...
News article 18 Aug 2014 New CAPS video highlights work of the Malawi project As the Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) continues to reach significant milestones in terms of recruitment, the team have released a video filmed in...
News article 16 Aug 2014 Haemorrhagic fever advice from LSTM experts. With the ongoing outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, the British Medical Journal this week carries an editorial by experts at LSTM to advise medical...
News article 8 Aug 2014 LSTM’s ongoing support to the fight against Ebola in West Africa As West African countries continue to fight the outbreak of Ebola, LSTM’s Dr Tim O’Dempsey has returned from Sierra Leone where he has been treating...
News article 6 Aug 2014 Pregnant women are often given inappropriate treatment for malaria Pregnant women are often given inappropriate treatment for malaria
News article 5 Aug 2014 T-REC symposium: Strengthening transfusion research capacity in Africa A T-REC symposium, part of the  7th Congress of the African Society for Blood Transfusion (AfSBT), took place earlier this week in Zimbabwe...
News article 5 Aug 2014 LSTM Director addresses Xth European Congress of Entomology Hosted by the Royal Entomological Society at the University of York, the Xth European Congress of Entomology, 3-8 August...
News article 1 Aug 2014 Sssnakes Alive! Exhibition to highlight the work of LSTM venom unit LSTM’s Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit, has collaborated with National Museums Liverpool (NML) and exhibition company Blue Tokay, on...
News article 30 Jul 2014 LSTM staff play leading roles in case management and data collection in current Ebola outbreak The current Ebola outbreak in numerous West African countries has seen the involvement of LSTM staff from the start of the outbreak in Guinea in...
News article 29 Jul 2014 Health research capacity strengthening Snapshots show how to improve monitoring and evaluation Strengthening health research capacity in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is a recognized way to advance health and development. However,...
News article 28 Jul 2014 Exhibition highlights LSTM’s role in First World War Exhibition highlights LSTM’s role in First World War
News article 24 Jul 2014 LSTM appoints student representative to Board of Trustees The LSTM Board of Trustees has recently welcomed a new member and the first student representative in the organisation’s 115-year history: Aduragbemi...
News article 22 Jul 2014 LSTM supports training programmes of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Save the Children Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is expanding its support to the training schemes of two of the UK’s leading aid agencies: Médecins Sans...
News article 21 Jul 2014 LSTM lecturer co-edits special issue of AIDS and Behaviour to coincide with international Aids conference To coincide with this week’s International Aids Conference 2014 in Melbourne Australia, the journal AIDS and Behaviour is producing a...
News article 19 Jul 2014 Offering Option of Initial HIV Care at Home Increases Use of Antiretroviral Therapy LSTM Researchers found that offering adults in Malawi optional home initiation of care following HIV self-testing resulted in a significant increase...
News article 17 Jul 2014 Summer graduation at LSTM This week has seen nine students from LSTM receiving their postgraduate research degrees during a ceremony at Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral of...
News article 15 Jul 2014 Partner of LSTM-based Effective Health Care Research Consortium (EHCRC) dominates South African news The Centre for Evidence-based Health Care at Stellenbosch Universityin South Africa dominated South African news after publication of its study...
News article 11 Jul 2014 AvecNet sponsored trial of Oyset Duo Bednet is underway in Burkina Faso New tools are urgently needed to combat the growing problem of insecticide resistance in relation to the transmission of malaria. The last decade has...
News article 10 Jul 2014 Report: The Contribution of Malaria Control to Maternal and Newborn Health A new report, co-authored by LSTM’s Jenny Hill and Annemieke van Eijk, was launched today alongside the annual High-Level Segment of...
News article 4 Jul 2014 LSTM re-designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre The World Health Organization has re-designated LSTM as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence Synthesis for Infectious and Tropical Diseases.
News article 3 Jul 2014 LSTM debate highlights importance of product development partnerships in the fight against malaria and NTDs ‘Product development partnerships are vital to the development of new drugs’, said Andy Wright, Vice President Global Health Programmes for...
News article 3 Jul 2014 Latest Cochrane Review: Primaquine or other 8-aminoquinoline for reducing P. falciparum transmission Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, hosted at LSTM, conducted an independent review of the effects of adding a single dose...
News article 30 Jun 2014 The State of the Tropics Report 2014 This weekend saw the launch of The State of the Tropics Report in Burma. This pivotal report has been the work of 12 key institutions across the...
News article 25 Jun 2014 LSTM Researchers demonstrate adaptive potential of hybridisation in West African Anopheles species Researchers from LSTM have exploited a natural experiment created by insecticidal pressure to determine how the most important malaria vectors -...
News article 24 Jun 2014 LSTM Key Travel Studentship for Research Students Europe’s leading travel management company, Key Travel and LSTM have created a new PhD studentship fund to support an LSTM research student. Support...
News article 20 Jun 2014 Translational medicine: the new paradigm of systematic reviews of pre-clinical studies The LSTM Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation fromDr Emily Sena of the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of...
News article 20 Jun 2014 Cochrane Review of RDTs for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Disease Group, co-ordinated through the editorial base in LSTM, conducted an independent review into the...
News article 19 Jun 2014 Cochrane Review looks at the effectiveness of antimicrobial drugs in the treatment of cholera Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, co-ordinated through the editorial base in LSTM, conducted an independent review of the...
News article 19 Jun 2014 IntHEC partners meeting at LSTM Improving adolescent reproductive health (ARH) in sub-Saharan Africa is fundamental to improving health and economic outcomes on this continent.
News article 13 Jun 2014 The LSTM Leverhulme Lecture 2014 Dr Tim Evans, Director for Health, Nutrition and Population, at the World Bank, delivered the prestigious LSTM Leverhulme Lecture at Liverpool Town...
News article 12 Jun 2014 LSTM Seminar Series: Vector, Pathogen and Host interactions The latest LSTM Seminar saw a presentation on ‘exploiting Vector, Pathogen and Host interactions’ by Dr James Logan, Senior Lecturer at the...
News article 12 Jun 2014 First day of CAHRD Consultation Today sees the arrival of nearly 200 delegates from 15 countries across Europe, Africa and Asia for the inaugural Consultation of Collaboration for...
News article 12 Jun 2014 Review of the CMNH International Conference on Maternal & Newborn Health Yesterday saw the third and final day of an international conference hosted by LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH).

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