Cardiovascular mortality and exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields: a cohort study of Swiss railway workers (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Exposure to intermittent magnetic fields of 16 Hz has been shown to reduce heart rate variability, and decreased heart rate variability predicts cardiovascular mortality. We examined morta
Population sampling in European air pollution exposure study, EXPOLIS: comparisons between the cities and representativeness of the samples (Publications)
A personal air pollution exposure study, EXPOLIS, was accomplished in six European cities among 25- to 55-year-old citizens. In order to compare the exposure results and different microenvironmental c
Human health benefits from livestock vaccination for brucellosis: case study (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the economic benefit, cost-effectiveness, and distribution of benefit of improving human health in Mongolia through the control of brucellosis by mass vaccination of livestock.
Development and application of real-tim PCR assay for quantification of <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> DNA (Publications)
Buruli ulcer, an infection caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, is, after tuberculosis and leprosy, the third most common mycobacterial disease. The mode of transmission of M. ulcerans is not exactly kno
Systematic review on the health effects of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from mobile phone base stations (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To review and evaluate the recent literature on the health effects of exposure to mobile phone base station (MPBS) radiation. METHODS: We performed a systematic review of randomized human t
The temporal pattern of mortality responses to ambient ozone in the APHEA project (Publications)
BACKGROUND: We investigated the temporal pattern of effects of summertime ozone (O(3)) in total, cardiovascular and respiratory mortality in 21 European cities participating in the APHEA-2 project, wh
