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News article 10 Jun 2014 LSTM Researchers identify the complex mechanisms controlling changes in snake venom Specialist researchers from LSTM have identified the diverse mechanisms by which variations in venom occur in related snake species and the...
News article 10 Jun 2014 MRC Confidence in Concept Awards The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium has announced the successful projects that will be receive an MRC Confidence in Concept Award of £500,000...
News article 9 Jun 2014 CMNH International Conference on Maternal & Newborn Health Today sees more than 150 delegates from 15 different countries in Africa and Asia come together in Liverpool for a three day international conference...
News article 6 Jun 2014 LSTM Debate: Calling the Parasite’s Bluff 2 July 2014 LSTM will be hosting a debate at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in July that asks the question ‘Will public private product development partnerships...
News article 5 Jun 2014 Shorter TB treatment regimens will reduce cost for patients and their families, LSTM-led study shows Shorter TB treatment regimens will reduce the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by both patients and their family members, who often act as the...
News article 2 Jun 2014 Detection of persistent Plasmodium spp. Infections in Ugandan children The burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa can be high and poses a significant threat to health of young children. During a 3-year longitudinal...
News article 30 May 2014 Seminar Series Report: Have National AIDS Commissions been useful? In the late 1980s cases of a condition that subsequently came to be called AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) were detected in many...
News article 29 May 2014 Rectal artesunate is probably beneficial in young children with severe malaria, but may be harmful in older children and adults Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, hosted at LSTM, conducted an independent review of the effects of pre-referral rectal...
News article 27 May 2014 New diagnostic for tuberculosis being evaluated in Nigeria as part of the EDCTP study During April two members of LSTM, Dr Emily Adams and Russell Dacombe, travelled to Abuja, Nigeria to train staff for the evaluation of...
News article 23 May 2014 CAHRD Consultation programme announced The Collaboration for Applied Health Research and Delivery (CAHRD), hosted by LSTM, is holding its inaugural consultation event in Liverpool in June.
News article 22 May 2014 Seminar Series Report: From Jack the Ripper to Malaria: geographic profiling in biology LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Steve Le Comber, Senior Lecturer at the School of Biological and Chemical...
News article 22 May 2014 International Conference on Maternal and Newborn Health LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, (CMNH), plays host to a three day international conference in June, bringing together delegates...
News article 16 May 2014 Indian delegation visits CMNH Delegates from India visited LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, (CMNH), last week to meet with UK facilitators and CMNH staff and...
News article 14 May 2014 Postcard from Bangladesh Two Liverpool-based members of staff from LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH), recently visited the visited Panchagarrh...
News article 13 May 2014 Concluding remarks from the inaugural CAHRD consultation meeting The inaugural Consultation of the Collaboration for Applied Health Research and Delivery (CAHRD), has concluded and three cross cutting...
News article 13 May 2014 The role of vector control in stopping the transmission of malaria: threats and opportunities Professor Janet Hemingway, Director of LSTM, is warning that there needs to be careful management of the resistance situation while new insecticides...
News article 9 May 2014 Seminar Series report. Work of the National Health Mission for Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5 LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a presentation by Dr Dinesh Baswal, Deputy Commissioner of Maternal Health, Government of India. His...
News article 9 May 2014 Seminar Series Report. The Market for Community Health Workers LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Lesong Conteh, Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at Imperial College London....
News article 6 May 2014 Seminar Series Report. Vaccine R&D: From Jenner to Rapuoli LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Professor Miles Carroll, from Public Health England, Porton Research. His seminar “...
News article 1 May 2014 CMNH celebrates International Day of the Midwife with new £9.3m programme in Kenya DFID award more than £9m for expansion of programme With International Day of the Midwife just around the corner (5th May), LSTM’s Centre...
News article 1 May 2014 LSTM achieves Athena Swan Bronze Award Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has achieved an institutional Bronze Award for Athena SWAN of the Equality Challenge Unit. It is a...
News article 30 Apr 2014 LSTM student wins British Society for Parasitology award A third year PhD student from LSTM, Clair Rose has won this year’s Best Student Talk Award from the British Society for Parasitology (BSP).
News article 29 Apr 2014 Trials at home and overseas examine the importance of clean air to lung health The cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) has reached another significant milestone with 3,500 children under the age of five now recruited to the study...
News article 29 Apr 2014 Dr Wendi Bailey retires after 40 years LSTM this week bids a fond farewell to Dr Wendi Bailey, head of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory, who retires after more than 40 years of service.
News article 25 Apr 2014 LSTM Seminar Series: Unifying the behaviour of tsetse: an item off the bucket list The LSTM Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation from Professor Glyn Vale of the Natural Resources Institute at the University of...
News article 25 Apr 2014 Researchers at LSTM part of the international team to sequence the tsetse genome Researchers from LSTM are among those who have sequenced the genome of a species of tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans). The outcomes of this research...
News article 24 Apr 2014 World Malaria Day 2014: Insecticide Quantification Kit Today is World Malaria Day. It provides an opportunity to look back at what has already been achieved in the fight against the disease, but also to...
News article 22 Apr 2014 Applied Bioinformatics MSc Poster Day: Bioinformatic Analysis of a Gene Sequence Applied Bioinformatics MSc student James Osborne has been awarded First Prize for his poster and presentation at the annual Bioinformatics MSc Poster...
News article 18 Apr 2014 LSTM Seminar Series Report: Evidence for Global Malaria Policy: briefing session The LSTM Seminar Series continued on Wednesday with a presentation delivered by LSTM’s Dr David Sinclair and Professor Paul Garner, who are part of...
News article 18 Apr 2014 LSTM Seminar Series: Health Economics of Health Service Delivery…Not the Same as Health Economics for HTA Decisions turn on preferences and probabilities, yet the human mind is notoriously bad at computing probabilities. The mind is prone to error and the...
News article 17 Apr 2014 Introducing rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in rural Africa can reduce wastage of antimalarial drugs but may not improve patient health outcomes Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group conducted a review of the effects of introducing rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for diagnosing...
News article 17 Apr 2014 More Research called for into HIV and schistosomiasis coinfection in African children Researchers from LSTM have called for more research to be carried out into HIV and schistosomiasis coinfection in children in sub-Saharan Africa. In...
News article 16 Apr 2014 LSTM supports Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme IT upgrade Eric Healing, Director of IT Services, recently visited the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (MLW) in Blantyre,...
News article 9 Apr 2014 The LSTM Professional Certificate in Supporting Learning 2014 The LSTM Professional Certificate in Supporting Learning is a short course designed to enhance the teaching skills of LSTM staff.  Participants...
News article 8 Apr 2014 AvecNet launch the new look website The FP7 supported consortium AvecNet has launched a new look website to highlight the work that they are undertaking to prevent the spread...
News article 8 Apr 2014 Putting the C back into the ABCs: A multi-year, multi-region investigation of condom use by Ugandan youths 2003-2010 Researchers from LSTM have discovered that among young people (between 15-24 years) in Uganda, those using a condom during their sexual debut are...
News article 4 Apr 2014 LSTM Seminar Series review: Dr Steffanie Knopp, Schistosomiasis elimination in Zanzibar Schistosomiasis is a disease caused by parasitic trematode worms, infecting people in 78 countries, when they are exposed to infested water. The...
News article 2 Apr 2014 LSTM seeks candidates for the Thomas Mark Scholarship in Tropical Paediatrics LSTM is now inviting applications to the highly competitiveThomas Mark Scholarship, established to support a student undertaking the MSc in...
News article 1 Apr 2014 Does good-quality housing protect against malaria The LSTM Seminar Series continued on Friday with a presentation delivered by Professor Steve Lindsay, from the School of Biological and Biomedical...
News article 28 Mar 2014 Science Without Borders In April 2014, senior post-doctoral researcher, Dr Daniela Ferreira will be traveling to Brazil to visit the top universities of the State...

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