<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rssdatehelper="urn:rssdatehelper"><channel><title>LSTM Press Releases</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk</link><pubDate></pubDate><description>This feed contains all press releases issued by LSTM</description><language>en</language><image><title>LSTM Press Releases</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk</link><url>/media/343/school_logo.jpg</url><width>144</width><height>100</height></image><item><title>Glasgow joins Liverpool in a new Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/glasgow-joins-liverpool</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/glasgow-joins-liverpool</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Liverpool, 30 April 2013 - The Wellcome Trust Tropical Centre, a longstanding joint initiative of the University of Liverpool (UoL) and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), is pleased to announce that it has been awarded £763,846 to become the Wellcome Trust-Liverpool-Glasgow Centre for Global Health Research in partnership with the University of Glasgow. The Centre will harness the strong institutional commitments to global health in Liverpool]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LSTM receives esteemed Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-receives-esteemed-royal-society</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:48:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-receives-esteemed-royal-society</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has announced the appointment of a host of new Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders, including LSTM’s Professor Hilary Ranson. Professor Ranson’s research to develop and evaluate new control tools including bed nets and sprays for use indoors to kill mosquitoes that carry malaria, is of increasing relevance to many low-resource countries. An area of research that UK science has an important role in leading.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LSTM study leads WHO to update its malaria prevention policy</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-study-leads-who</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:49:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-study-leads-who</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Liverpool, 13 February 2013 – A study led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has been a critical element in helping the World Health Organization (WHO) to update its policy recommendation on intermittent preventive treatment for the prevention of malaria in pregnant women (IPTp) who live in malaria-endemic regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Study results show that when these pregnant women receive three or more doses of preventive therapy instead of the standard two-dose regimen the birth weight of their newborns will be higher.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Tuberculosis: WHO-Endorsed Test Offers Rapid Detection </title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/tuberculosis-who-endorsed</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:43:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/tuberculosis-who-endorsed</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ A diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) can accurately and quickly detect both TB and drug-resistant strains, according to a new study conducted by researchers, from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group based at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, McGill University and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND). The authors say that their study - a new systematic review assessing the diagnostic accuracy of the Xpert® MTB/RIF test published in The Cochrane Library, can provide timely advice for clinicians and policymakers in countries where TB is a major public health problem.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LSTM &amp; Aintree University Hospital in £2.7m Funding to Save Lives of Children in Africa</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-aintree-university-hospital-in-27m</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-aintree-university-hospital-in-27m</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ A research team from Liverpool has been awarded £2.7m to fund a trial that could benefit some of the most deprived communities around the world.

Experts from Aintree University Hospital (AUH) and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) are leading on the development of the project, which will enable them to investigate how to reduce the effects of domestic smoke inhalation. This is a problem in low and middle income countries around the world, where open fires, used for heating, cooking and lighting, are commonly used inside the main living quarters of homes.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LSTM in new research which highlights Life Expectancy is Shorter in The Tropics</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-in-new-research-which-highlights-life-expectancy-is-shorter-in-the-tropics</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-in-new-research-which-highlights-life-expectancy-is-shorter-in-the-tropics</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ A world-wide initiative to define the challenges facing the peoples of the tropics was launched today by 13 leading research institutions across 12 countries.


The group has released an early insight of its planned State of the Tropics Report with details of why life expectancy is lower in the region than in the rest of the world.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LSTM Receives £250,000 in First Awards Made Through the Biomedical Catalyst</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-receives-250000</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:27:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-receives-250000</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ The Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Technology Strategy Board have made one of their first funding awards under the joint £180 million Biomedical Catalyst to LSTM. The awards were announced today by Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts at the British Business Embassy’s life sciences summit at Lancaster House.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Queen’s Birthday Honour for the Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/janet-hemingway-cbe</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:36:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/janet-hemingway-cbe</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Professor Janet Hemingway FRS, the Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and CEO of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) has been awarded the Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the Control of Tropical Disease Vectors. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LSTM to help save lives of mothers and babies in world’s poorest countries</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-to-help-save-lives-of-mothers-and-babies</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-to-help-save-lives-of-mothers-and-babies</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ MORE than 17,000 health workers in the world’s poorest countries will be trained to provide emergency care for millions of mothers and babies by experts from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine with the help of British aid.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LSTM to help save lives of mothers and babies in world’s poorest countries</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-to-help-save-mothers-and-babies</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-to-help-save-mothers-and-babies</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ MORE than 17,000 health workers in the world’s poorest countries will be trained to provide emergency care for millions of mothers and babies by experts from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine with the help of British aid. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>UK Government pledges new support to LSTM to protect 100 million people</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/uk-government-pledges</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/uk-government-pledges</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Liverpool, 21 January 2012 – The Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNTD) at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has received a major boost from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in its drive to eliminate elephantiasis globally. The new commitment of £22 million over the next four years will provide 400 million treatments to protect 100 million people in Africa and Asia from this painful and disfiguring disease.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Receives Additional Grand Challenges Explorations Funding</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-receives-additional-grand-challenges</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:04:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-receives-additional-grand-challenges</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ It was announced today that LSTM will receive additional funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges.  Professor Stephen Gordon will continue to pursue an innovative global health research project, titled Experimental Human Carriage of Pneumococci.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Surviving premature babies in Malawi continue to have poor growth rates and development delay</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/surviving-premature-babies</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/surviving-premature-babies</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ A detailed study from Malawi, published in this week’s PLoS Medicine, shows that during the first 2
years of life, infants who were born prematurely (before 37 weeks gestation) continue to have a higher
risk of death than infants born at term and are also more likely to have poorer growth and developmental
delay.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LSTM and UoL secure £1.02m to develop a new drug against tuberculosis</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-and-uol-secure-102m</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-and-uol-secure-102m</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the University of Liverpool (UoL) have secured a £1.02 million project grant from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to develop a new drug to combat tuberculosis (TB).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LSTM embarks on a 3 million Euro research project to strengthen the health workforce in Africa</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-embarks-on-a-3-million-euro-research</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-embarks-on-a-3-million-euro-research</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ The dire shortage of health staff is a key obstacle to improving health and saving lives in Africa.

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) launches PERFORM, a 3 mn Euro research project to support improved performance of health workers in Africa.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>T-REC: Building research capacity for blood transfusion services in Africa</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/t-rec-building-research</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:17:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/t-rec-building-research</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Blood transfusions are a critical part of modern healthcare everywhere in the world. Transfusions save millions of lives each year and in African countries, they are vital for women in childbirth and children and adults with severe anaemia. But the problem is this: in African countries blood transfusion policies and practice are mostly guided by evidence from Europe and America. What works in Western countries, does not always apply in Africa.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sexual Health and HIV: Translating Research into Policy for Positive Change</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/sexual-health-and-hiv</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/sexual-health-and-hiv</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ There are 7,000 new HIV infections every day, 99 per cent of maternal deaths happen in developing countries, and access to sexual and reproductive health services is woefully inadequate. Evidence can help to improve policies and health services but too often it doesn’t get used. Today a new report is published that provides crucial learning on translating research into policy and practice that has a lasting impact.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Royal Society Honours  the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/the-royal-society-honours--the-liverpool-school-of-tropical-medicine</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 15:27:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/the-royal-society-honours--the-liverpool-school-of-tropical-medicine</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Foundation-sponsored Innovative Vector Control Consortium is one of 44 new Fellows elected by The Royal Society. She joins the ranks of the UK and Commonwealth’s leading scientists, counting herself among early Fellows such as Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.  The Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of science.  Founded in 1660, the Society is a major provider of independent scientific advice, a learned society and a funding agency.  Election to the Fellowship is the highest national scientific honour in the UK.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Research Venture between Liverpool and Saudi Arabia Aims to Advance Global Response to Infectious Diseases</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/new-research-venture</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/new-research-venture</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ London, 5 April 2011 - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health (KSA MoH), the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) have launched a new venture to significantly increase the global ability to control major infectious diseases such as malaria and dengue.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>€12 million project to develop new tools for malaria control </title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/12-million-project-to-develop</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/12-million-project-to-develop</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ LSTM has launched a collaborative project to develop and evaluate new tools to control the spread of malaria in Africa.  AvecNet is a five year, €12 million project involving sixteen partners in Africa and Europe, funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework programme.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Better TB control worldwide critical to controlling UK increase</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/better-tb-control-worldwide</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/better-tb-control-worldwide</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ LSTM’s Dr Bertie Squire marked World TB Day today by highlighting the work being taken forward in Liverpool and around the world to more effectively control a disease which kills nearly two million people every year.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Newer Antimalarials More Effective Than Quinine Against Severe Malaria</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/newer-antimalarials-more</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/newer-antimalarials-more</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Quinine should no longer be the drug of choice for treating severe malaria, according to an updated systematic review produced by the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). It is now evident that the antimalarial drug artesunate, which is derived from herbs used in Chinese medicine, is more effective at preventing death in patients with severe malaria.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LSTM and SITA UK plan for an environmentally sustainable future</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-and-sita</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-and-sita</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s (LSTM) commitment to improving its environmental sustainability has taken a step forward with the introduction of a new partnership with SITA UK. The new waste management contract will see no more waste going to landfill, with SITA UK sorting and recycling as much of the collected waste as possible.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Protection of pregnant women against malaria still inadequate</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/protection-of-pregnant</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/protection-of-pregnant</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ A study published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases finds that methods to protect pregnant women from malaria are still underutilised in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).  A review of national control strategies by a team of international researchers, led by the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium and funded by the Consortium and the Wellcome Trust, has concluded that despite major efforts, coverage is still inadequate in many areas and needs to be scaled up.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LSTM leads new £6 million health systems knowledge consortium</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-leads-new-6-million</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:54:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-leads-new-6-million</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ LSTM is leading a six year, £6 million international research consortium to strengthen knowledge of how health systems which have been damaged in conflict situations are most effectively rebuilt.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LSTM Chairman and Vice President recognised in New Year Honours</title><link>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-chairman-and-vice-president</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/lstm-chairman-and-vice-president</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ LSTM’s Chairman, James Ross, was awarded an OBE for voluntary service to higher education in the New Year Honours list.  James was the Inaugural Chair of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education from December 2003 until October last year.  He was elected Chairman of LSTM in December 2007.]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>