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We are extremely grateful to the Office for Standards in Education for allowing us access to their database for use in developing the measure of school disadvantage, and to Dr Paul Wilkinson and Dr Chris Grundy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who provided the Carstair's Index.

Heidi Larson, an anthropologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who studies public trust in vaccines, says Hotez is right to sound the alarm.

Martin McKee, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who also studies denial, has identified six tactics that all denialist movements use.

Heidi Larson is an anthropologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who studies public trust in vaccines

Andrew Haines, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who led the commission, echoed this sentiment.

Laura Rodrigues, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who worked on this study, said its results were «the missing pieces in the jigsaw» proving the link.

Not exact matches

«We now see this very successful resistant parasite lineage emerging, outcompeting its peers, and spreading over a wide area,» said Arjen Dondorp, of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Thailand, who co-led the work.

Tropical Diseases Bulletin Echoing the WHO day theme «Children's Health - Tomorrow's Wealth», the April issue of the Tropical Diseases Bulletin contains abstracts of 250 selected papers relating to children's health, available at # 5 / $ 12.50 from the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, Gower Street, London, WC1, U.K.

Although the new research looks «promising,» the newly identified compounds have not been tested outside of the lab, says James Logan, scientific director of the Arthropod Control Product Test Center at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who did not contribute to the study.

Farmer, a Harvard professor who co-founded the nonprofit Partners in Health, explained at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in Philadelphia, how that reaction should be an asset in the global battle for better health.

Tropical medicine physician Jeremy Farrar — head of the London - based Wellcome Trust, and one of the expert trio who had called for use of the medicines — said that the WHO's decision to hold a discussion on ethical use of experimental Ebola treatments «a very welcome step in the right direction.&raqwho had called for use of the medicines — said that the WHO's decision to hold a discussion on ethical use of experimental Ebola treatments «a very welcome step in the right direction.&raqWHO's decision to hold a discussion on ethical use of experimental Ebola treatments «a very welcome step in the right direction.»

The trend is «alarming,» says Heidi Larson, who heads the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Among the damage wrought: «There's been a lot less rain, a lot more drought, and the potential for increased disease,» says George Davis, a tropical medicine specialist at The George Washington University (G.W.) Medical Center in Washington, D.C., who has worked in the Yangtze River Basin and neighboring provinces for 24 years.

According to the authors, who are based at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, the World Health Organization, Switzerland, and the University of Edinburgh, UK, «Despite remarkable progress at the level of global averages, at national level, MDG 4 will not be achieved in most countries in 2015.

The finding «explains a number of the rather strange results we were getting» in trying to identify mosquito species in Malawi using routine polymerase chain reaction assays, says insect molecular biologist Janet Hemingway, director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the U.K., who was not involved in the study.

Tony McMichael of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who will be a chief speaker at the meeting, believes that the main impacts on health will come from the disruption of food production and the spread of tropical diseases such as Tropical Medicine, who will be a chief speaker at the meeting, believes that the main impacts on health will come from the disruption of food production and the spread of tropical diseases such as tropical diseases such as malaria.

Snake identification can be lifesaving if it guides use of antivenom accurately, said François Chappuis, a tropical medicine doctor at Geneva University Hospital, who reported the findings November 4 at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and tropical medicine doctor at Geneva University Hospital, who reported the findings November 4 at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and medicine doctor at Geneva University Hospital, who reported the findings November 4 at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Tropical Medicine and Medicine and Hygiene.

«Just like with malaria, sleeping under mosquito nets is a very successful preventative, but the poorest people, who have the houses which offer the worst protection, can not afford nets,» says Sarah Cleaveland, a rabies expert at the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

If serum is tested on humans, it should be checked in advance that it can neutralize the virus, says Stephan Günther, a virologist at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, who is now in Nigeria.

Harding - Esch, who has a master's degree in the control of infectious diseases and a PhD in infectious and tropical diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), coordinates the treatment of about 6000 children with the antibiotic azithtropical diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), coordinates the treatment of about 6000 children with the antibiotic azithTropical Medicine (LSHTM), coordinates the treatment of about 6000 children with the antibiotic azithromycin.

The tropical medicine advisor with Doctors Without Borders had been working in that west African country on a malaria project — distributing drugs to reduce the death rate among children under five years of age — when she was notified that the State of Louisiana wanted to limit «unnecessary exposure of Ebola to the general public» and would be requesting all individuals who had traveled to Ebola - affected countries voluntarily quarantine themselves for 21 days following their relevant travel history, regardless of their symptoms.

«You could make a good case for either one,» says Brian Greenwood, an epidemiologist specializing in vaccines at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who is chairing a session at the meeting.

«We are in a time of big data,» said Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who co-chaired the meeting.

Jessica Datta, a lecturer in the Department of Social and Environmental Health Research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (London, UK), who led the research, said: «We were surprised that almost half of the people in our study who had experienced infertility had not sought help.»

The remaining two people, who had no known exposure or symptoms, had positive results, but follow - up testing using different methods was negative, making Ebola virus infection very unlikely.The research team, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and funded by the Wellcome Trust, enrolled 300 UK and Ireland healthcare and other frontline workers ¹ for the study and sent them oral fluid collection devices.

Lead author Dr Nadja van Ginneken, who completed the research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Centre for Global Mental Health with funding from the Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD programme, said: «Many low - and middle - income countries have started to train primary care staff, and in particular lay and other community - based health workers, to deliver mental health care.

This week, Louisiana state health officials asked anyone who has traveled to Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea in the past 21 days, or has treated Ebola patients elsewhere, to stay away from the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which begins on Sunday in New Orleans.

Today, Louisiana state health officials asked anyone who has traveled to Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea in the past 21 days, or has treated Ebola patients elsewhere, to stay away from the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), which begins on Sunday in New Orleans.

«At present, the standard of practice is no identification at all, a diagnosis from the symptoms, or more rarely identification of dead snakes that victims occasionally bring to the clinic,» says François Chappuis of Geneva University Hospitals in Switzerland, who presented the work this week at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting in New Orleans.

«This RMSF epidemic largely affects children and young adults who were previously healthy, who would otherwise have the most potential to contribute economically to society,» the researchers reported in their study published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

TRAC is a large multi-centre collaboration coordinated by Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, and comprises a range of research institutions as well as National Malaria Control Programmes and the World Health Organization (WHO).

TRAC is a large - scale collaboration coordinated by the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, and comprises research groups and National Malaria Control Programmes in each of the study - site countries, along with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) and the Global Malaria Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO GMP).

«The biggest hurdle will be conducting safety trials in the most important target population — women who are pregnant or planning pregnancies,» said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute.

Campbell is one of three scientists from the U.S., Japan and China who won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering drugs to fight malaria and other tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people every year.

Chris Curtis, Professor of Medical Entomology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who works on practical methods of controlling malaria, said:

The «hook» of the J — in this case, the people with the lowest sodium intake — should be interpreted very carefully, says Paul Whelton, MD, a research professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, in New Orleans, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.

«What happens to 19 people on a metabolic ward may not apply to the general population out in the real world who are trying to lose weight,» says Lydia Bazzano, MD, PhD, professor in nutrition research at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

«We are seeing an unprecedented uptick in vector borne diseases and we are not sure why,» says Dr. Peter Hotez, dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (who was not involved in the recent studies).

Mason, who spent a year in the area studying tropical medicine, has supplemented his real - life experience with considerable research, and the book combines historical faithfulness with plot drama that will have readers racing through the last 30 pages.