London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine health news articles

Simple injection of TXA could save the lives of thousands of accident victims
If recently injured patients with serious bleeding were to receive a cheap, widely available and easily administered drug to help their blood to clot, tens of thousands of lives could be saved every year.

Organic food not nutritionally superior than conventional
A systematic review of literature over 50 years finds no evidence for superior nutritional content of organic produce. Researchers revealed that organic food is not nutritionally better than conventionally-produced food.

Keeping slim is good for the planet
Maintaining a healthy body weight is good news for the environment, according to a study which appears today in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Eat oily fish to protect your eyesight in old age
Eating oily fish once a week may reduce age-related macular degeneration (AMD) which is the major cause of blindness and poor vision in adults in western countries and the third cause of global blindness, according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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