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Health news stories:
HIV vaccine
Researchers from Imperial College London have found a way to prevent HIV from damaging the immune system.
29 November 2011
Fighting disease
University of West London is helping in the fight against healthcare infections such as MRSA.
13 November 2011
Windpipe transplant
A UCL scientist and his team have designed and built a synthetic windpipe used in a successful operation in Sweden.
12 September 2011
Sanitation pioneer
African governments honour London professor for his contribution to improving the health and well-being of Africans.
15 August 2011
Read insight magazine
The latest edition of insight magazine is out now with lots of London university news and courses inside.
3 August 2011
Heart art
London science and health professors win British Heart Foundation science competition with their images and videos.
25 July 2011
Changing lives in India
London architecture students make a big difference to the lives of people in India.
8 June 2011
Fighting global poverty
London students volunteer for the new International Citizen Service (ICS) programme and join fight to end global poverty.
30 April 2011
School of Public Health
Imperial College London opens new health school to tackle the major global health challenges of the 21st century.
26 April 2011
Cyprus medical degree
St George’s, University of London is helping to launch the first Cypriot medical training programme.
28 March 2011
Cancer research
Queen Mary, University of London will lead a £5 million research unit for cancer screening, symptom awareness and early diagnosis.
15 March 2011
Indian social work
London social work students travel to India for four weeks to work with victims of human trafficking and domestic abuse.
9 March 2011
Silencing the dental drill
London researchers invent innovative device to silence the noise of the dental drill when people visit the dentist.
21 February 2011
South Pole expedition
A team of explorers are in Antarctica, Earth's most inhospitable continent, testing biomedical equipment made by Imperial College.
24 December 2010
Medicine courses in London
London is home to five medical schools offering some of the top ranked medicine and dentistry courses in the UK.
1 December 2010- Health courses in London
Study health or healthcare in one of the top ranking universities in the UK and choose from a wide range of courses in London.
16 November 2010 
Smartphones in Africa
Maasai vets to use Google smartphones to monitor diseases in East Africa thanks to support from London’s universities and colleges.
15 November 2010- Singapore medical school
Imperial College London is helping to create a new medical school to train undergraduate doctors in Singapore.
18 October 2010