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News article 29 Sep 2014 Annual ReBUILD Workshop LSTM has hosted the 4th annual workshop for ReBUILD, a 6 year, £6 million research consortium funded by the UK Department for International...
News article 25 Sep 2014 Experts at LSTM use novel modelling approach to assess the effectiveness of new diagnostics for TB Experts at LSTM have used a novel modelling approach to project the effects of new diagnostic methods and algorithms for the diagnosis of...
News article 25 Sep 2014 RSTMH Biennial Meeting ‘Measuring Progress’ LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway will be chairing a session today at the Biennial Meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical...
News article 24 Sep 2014 LSTM research student among top Saudi students in the UK PhD student Waleed Al-Salem, studying in LSTM’s Department of Parasitology, has been honoured for his achievements this week, after being...
News article 23 Sep 2014 LSTM Ebola Response Register LSTM have called upon their Alumni to encourage them, or people within their professional networks, to sign up to a new Ebola Response Register that...
News article 22 Sep 2014 LSTM part of a partnership looking at new models to fight sleeping sickness in DRC LSTM, with partners the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (ITM) and Memisa Belgium will spearhead a new and more sustainable approach to...
News article 22 Sep 2014 Juan Ortiz Remembered 12 months after his tragic death, LSTM remembers Dr Juan Jesus Ortiz-Iruri, who was among those killed during the terrorist attack on the Westgate...
News article 22 Sep 2014 WHO publishes LSTM-led cross-sectional survey on drug resistance of TB in Malawi The online research section of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) published the results of a cross-sectional...
News article 19 Sep 2014 Respiratory Research at LSTM Respiratory infections affect the young and the old, the poor and the vulnerable throughout the world. LSTM’s Respiratory Research Team are...
News article 18 Sep 2014 LSTM’s Professor van den Broek edits special supplement about Quality of Care Head of LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH), Professor Nynke van den Broek, has acted as Editor for a special...
News article 16 Sep 2014 SSSNAKES ALIVE! Experts from LSTM’s Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit have contributed to an exhibition that will be opening at World Museum Liverpool...
News article 12 Sep 2014 Seminar Series: Development and production of immunobiologicals LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk from Dr Eliane Miyaji from the Butantan Institute (BI) in Brazil. Dr Miyaji was introduced by...
News article 11 Sep 2014 Latest Cochrane Review: Artemether for severe malaria Partner researchers from the Effective Health Care Research Consortium, and the Cochrane Infectious Disease Group, both hosted at LSTM,...
News article 9 Sep 2014 Clinical Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory maintains its Clinical Pathology Accreditation LSTM’s Clinical Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory (CDPL) has, following a recent inspection, maintained its Clinical Pathology...
News article 5 Sep 2014 ICAAC 2014 Today sees the start of a five day international conference run by the American Society for Microbiology, The Interscience Conference on...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

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