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Lancet fully retracts MMR paper

February 4, 2010 by danni kirwan

Happy New Year - January Newsletter full of ideas, info and opportunities!

January 24, 2010 by admin

Happy New 2010 - the latest newsletter is available for download here!

We hope to see you at an Alma Mata event this year!

Alma Mata Global Health Newsletter - October 2009

September 26, 2009 by admin

 

Swine Influenza outbreak spreads worldwide

April 28, 2009 by gblewis81

Swine influenza outbreakspreads worldwide

The WHO has so far confirmed 7 deaths and 89 infections of the swine-influenza virus that emerged from Mexico last weekend. However, the number of suspected deaths stands at 152, with suspected cases at 1614.

Unlike avian influenza, the human to human transmission that the swine virus has developed raises the possibility of the first major flu pandemic since the “Hong Kong Influenza” in the 1960’s.

Job Opportunity - Research Assistant at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

March 30, 2009 by Fred

Summer School 2009: UCL International Institute for Society & Health

March 24, 2009 by timkilleen


The UCL Health and Society Summer School 13 - 17 July 09 focusing on the social determinants of health and global health is now accepting registrations. Speakers included Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Professor Richard Wilkinson (author of the recently published The Spirit Level - Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better).

Antibiotic Resistance

April 19, 2008 by News Editor

With increasing resistance to existing antibiotics, developing countries face a serious challenge in safeguarding their populations' health against killer diseases such as TB and typhoid fever

http://www.scidev.net/en/health/antibiotic-resistance

El cine en Perú es el medio para prevenir tuberculosis

March 19, 2008 by News Editor

El Ministerio de Salud y el gobierno regional de Arequipa han encontrado en el cine itinerante un modo alternativo de difundir la prevención contra la tuberculosis, especialmente entre niños y adolescentes de zonas aisladas donde es muy difícil llegar con otras formas de divulgación.

Anti-TB Drug Resistance

March 19, 2008 by News Editor

Fourth Global Report

Malaria vaccine enters second stage

February 10, 2008 by News Editor

A malaria vaccine has performed well in a small clinical trial of adults in Mali, leading to testing being expanded to children.

The results of the adult trial — carried out by Mahamadou Thera and colleagues from the Malaria Research and Training Center of the University of Bamako in Mali, and US universities — were published this month (23 January) in PLoS One.

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