Discovery and evaluation of thiazinoquinones as anti-protozoal agents (Publications)
Pure compound screening has identified the dioxothiazino-quinoline-quinone ascidian metabolite ascidiathiazone A (2) to be a moderate growth inhibitor of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (IC50 3.1 muM)
Weather and mortality: a 10 year retrospective analysis of the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Burkina Faso (Publications)
Background: A growing body of evidence points to the emission of greenhouse gases from human activity as a key factor in climate change. This in turn affects human health and wellbeing through consequ
Impact of geocoding methods on associations between long-term exposure to urban air pollution and lung function (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Errors in address geocodes may impact estimates of the effects of air pollution on health. OBJECTIVE: We investigated the impact of four geocoding techniques on the association between urb
Changing patterns of health in communities impacted by a bioenergy project in northern Sierra Leone (Publications)
Large private sector investments in low- and middle-income countries are often critically evaluated with regards to their environmental, social, human rights, and health impacts. A health impact asses
Ancient Chinese methods are remarkably effective for the preparation of artemisinin-rich extracts of Qing Hao with potent antimalarial activity (Publications)
Ancient Chinese herbal texts as far back as the 4th Century Zhou hou bei ji fang describe methods for the use of Qing Hao (Artemisia annua) for the treatment of intermittent fevers. Today, the A. annu
Residential black carbon exposure and circulating markers of systemic inflammation in elderly males: the normative aging study (Publications)
Background: Traffic-related particles (TRPs) are associated with adverse cardiovascular events. The exact mechanisms are unclear, but systemic inflammatory responses likely play a role.Objectives: We
Association between long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and subclinical atherosclerosis: the REGICOR study (Publications)
Background: Epidemiological evidence of the effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on the chronic processes of atherogenesis is limited.Objective: We investigated the association of long-term
High blood pressure and long-term exposure to indoor noise and air pollution from road traffic (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Traffic noise has been associated with prevalence of hypertension, but reports are inconsistent for blood pressure (BP). People's noise exposure indoors might be essential to ascertain eff