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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).
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

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