Thousands of Londoners hospitalised in three years due to harmful air pollution
Poor air quality in the capital leads to around 1,000 London hospital admissions for asthma and serious lung conditions every year.
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How can moths help us to develop better tuberculosis treatments?
PhD student Masanori Asai discusses why he's using moth larvae to study tuberculosis (TB) infection.
Pulmonary Hypertension Research Update
Pulmonary Hypertension Research Update
Imperial launches its first public health online degree
The Global Master of Public Health, developed alongside Coursera, is Imperial's first fully-online degree in the health field.
New blood tests for TB could accelerate diagnosis and save the NHS money
Rapid blood tests used by the NHS are unable to rule out tuberculosis (TB) and should be replaced with a new, more accurate test, a study has found.
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A new wave of technology is set to transform surgery for millions of patients
An independent commission has predicted that surgery is about to be transformed for millions of patients by a new wave of technologies.
Anti-inflammatory drug reduces key complication risk in HIV-positive TB patients
Trial finds that prednisone can reduce the risk of TB-IRIS – a serious complication seen in HIV-positive tuberculosis (TB) patients.
Using Big Data to unravel asthma
Asthma is not a single disease but actually a complex of different conditions with fundamentally different underlying molecular machinery
Potential tuberculosis vaccine shows early promise in clinical trial
Ongoing clinical trial yields positive preliminary results for candidate tuberculosis (TB) vaccine M72/AS01E1.
Childhood TB burden could be reduced by better targeting of high-risk households
Study reveals untapped potential of household contact management strategies as UN General Assembly gathers for first-ever high-level meeting on TB.
