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Latest News

This section contains news features from our home page which have not been issued as press releases.

Below is an index of stories featured on our front page from the past few months.

23 May 2013	-	LSTM and University of Warwick: "Catalysing Applied Health Research"
22 May 2013	-	Global recommendations on child medicines should show supporting evidence
22 May 2013	-	LSTM wins two prestigious Grand Challenge Exploration Grants from Gates Foundation
21 May 2013	-	LSTM Post Graduate Research Conference 2013
16 May 2013	-	Communication across cultures: Lessons from DFID programmes in Pakistan
14 May 2013	-	4th IntHEC partners meeting in Niamey, Niger
13 May 2013	-	Prize winning research on insecticide resistance
09 May 2013	-	LSTM receives Clinical Pathology Accreditation
08 May 2013	-	River Blindness transmission with ivermectin treatment: How long is mass drug administration needed?
03 May 2013	-	Masters Project Presentation Day 2013
02 May 2013	-	TB REACH project Ethiopia-LSTM wins prestigious medal in Ethiopia
26 Apr 2013	-	Integration of malaria and NTD control programmes provides mutual benefits
25 Apr 2013	-	World Malaria Day 2013: call to invest in the future to defeat malaria
24 Apr 2013	-	Evaluating the Health Transition Fund in Zimbabwe
19 Apr 2013	-	Applied Bioinformatics Poster Day
18 Apr 2013	-	Study reveals the potential of Human Nasal Colonization as a Universal Pneumococcal Vaccine
17 Apr 2013	-	LSTM Seminar Series: The Social Determinants of Health and Disability
16 Apr 2013	-	LSTM present at RCN Congress in Liverpool
11 Apr 2013	-	Parliamentary and Scientific Committee Chair Andrew Miller MP visits LSTM
10 Apr 2013	-	LSTM Seminar Series: Trypanosomes and Leishmania – drug targets in protein kinase gene families
10 Apr 2013	-	Chair of APPMG Jeremy LeFroy MP visits LSTM
08 Apr 2013	-	LSTM Seminar Series: Scaling-up HIV treatment in resource limited settings
08 Apr 2013	-	LSTM and UoL student Catrin Jones wins Royal Society of Medicine essay prize
04 Apr 2013	-	Household air pollution: a call for studies into biomarkers of exposure and predictors of respiratory disease
04 Apr 2013	-	New England Journal of Medicine: Combination antifungal therapy for cryptococcal meningitis
02 Apr 2013	-	LSTM in joint appointment with University of Warwick of Professor Steve Torr
27 Mar 2013	-	LSTM Seminar Series: Private providers participation for maternal health care delivery: Evidence from India
25 Mar 2013	-	LSTM’s Maternal and Newborn Health Unit completes orientation workshops for new facilitators
22 Mar 2013	-	REACHOUT: New website on close-to-community providers of healthcare launched
20 Mar 2013	-	Honorary appointment for Professor Mark Woodhead
20 Mar 2013	-	LSTM holds 15th NGO Forum
14 Mar 2013	-	LSTM Director Professor Janet Hemingway steps down as CEO of IVCC
12 Mar 2013	-	SPINE: Improving data collection in developing countries
08 Mar 2013	-	International Women’s day - today 8th March
06 Mar 2013	-	UK parliamentarians visit Ethiopia-LSTM TB REACH Project in Awassa, Ethiopia
05 Mar 2013	-	CROI Conference 2013: LSTM presents HIV self-testing study in Malawi showing significant effect on willingness to report positive results and higher rate of ART initiation
04 Mar 2013	-	New Course – Introduction to Ultrasound in Low Resource Settings (20-24 May 2013)
04 Feb 2013	-	Qatar hosts first training course for Disease Control Programmes conducted by LSTM’s Centre for Health in the Eastern Mediterranean (CHEM)
12 Dec 2012	-	LSTM Annual Report 2011/2012 now available
10 Dec 2012	-	Searching for an anti-HIV cream
06 Dec 2012	-	LSTM PhD Studentships
27 Nov 2012	-	LSTM Health in Humanitarian Settings Research Symposium - 3 December 2012
22 Nov 2012	-	LSTM Director wins Knowledge Leader of the Year Award
12 Oct 2012	-	Black Mamba Venom ‘Better Painkiller’ than Morphine
11 Oct 2012	-	Menstrual management among schoolgirls being investigated by LSTM and partners in Kenya
12 Sep 2012	-	Evaluation of LQAS classification system for control of Schistosomiasis
26 Jul 2012	-	LSTM expansion plans featured in the Liverpool Post
24 Jul 2012	-	HEART chosen for DFID Health, Nutrition, and Education PEAKS
13 Jul 2012	-	News alert – Updated research on the effect of deworming drugs on nutrition and school performance in children
29 Jun 2012	-	LSTM welcomes Patron, HRH The Princess Royal to Annual Vice-Presidents’ Dinner
11 May 2012	-	John Dusabe's project featured in The Guardian
17 Apr 2012	-	Maegraith Archive deposited at LSTM
11 Apr 2012	-	LSTM Photo Competition 2012
23 Mar 2012	-	World TB Day 2012
28 Feb 2012	-	Professor Mark Taylor is awarded the 2012 BSP Wright Medal
06 Jan 2012	-	LSTM invites PhD applications for 2012 entry into ESRC funded pathway in Development and Humanitarianism
15 Dec 2011	-	LSTM Annual Report for 2010/2011 Now Available
06 Oct 2011	-	Professor Steve Ward announced as the new Vice President of RSTMH
06 Oct 2011	-	Professor Steve Ward awarded Malcolm Campbell Memorial Award for Malaria Research
06 Sep 2011	-	Interested in doing a Masters? LSTM Open Day on Friday, 7th October 2011
17 Aug 2011	-	Woman's hour and LSTM
16 Aug 2011	-	TB special including a feature on the new TMC 207 drug
29 Jul 2011	-	The therapeutic research of the Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit is discussed on the BBC World’s Health Show
13 Jul 2011	-	LSTM stakeholder magazine tropical is now available to view online
24 Jun 2011	-	Janet Hemingway on BBC Radio Merseyside
23 Jun 2011	-	FEPOW Bamboo Garden launched at Ness
20 Jun 2011	-	Diploma in Tropical Nursing has been accredited by the Royal College of Nursing
02 Jun 2011	-	LSTM’s Professor Alister Craig receives Wellcome Trust Investigator Award
25 Mar 2011	-	World TB Day 2011 - Teaching and Consultancy
23 Mar 2011	-	World TB Day 2011 - TB Evidence Synthesis
22 Mar 2011	-	World TB Day - TB Diagnostics
21 Mar 2011	-	World TB Day 2011- New drugs against tuberculosis
15 Mar 2011	-	LSTM provides pathway in Development and Humanitarianism for new ESRC programme
14 Mar 2011	-	TREAT TB Partners 2011 Meeting hosted at LSTM
08 Mar 2011	-	International Women’s Day 2011
25 Feb 2011	-	HIV Strategy project for Libya withdraws LSTM staff but remains committed to project
08 Feb 2011	-	All aboard for travel and expedition medicine course
02 Feb 2011	-	LSTM Photo Competition 2011
21 Jan 2011	-	Diploma in Tropical Nursing
14 Jan 2011	-	LSTM and SITA UK plan for an environmentally sustainable future
11 Nov 2010	-	World Pneumonia Day
10 Nov 2010	-	41st World Conference on Lung Health
01 Nov 2010	-	LATH and CNTD, in partnership with SCI, awarded NTD project by DFID
15 Oct 2010	-	LSTM’s Deputy Director hails success of coordination in malaria research
27 Sep 2010	-	World Rabies Day

For Press releases from past years, please refer to the Press Release Archive