Impact of environmental changes on infectious diseases: key findings from an international conference in Trieste, Italy in May 2017 (Publications)
Elsevier's 2(nd) conference on "Impact of Environmental Changes on Infectious Diseases" (IECID), convened in May 2017 in Trieste, Italy, brought together some 120 researchers from more than 20 countri
A near-complete series of four atropisomeric jozimine A2-Type naphthylisoquinoline dimers with antiplasmodial and cytotoxic activities and related... (Publications)
Three new naphthylisoquinoline dimers, jozibrevines A-C (1a-c), were isolated from the West African shrub Ancistrocladus abbreviatus, along with the known dimer jozimine A2 (1d). The two molecular moi
Prevalence and adverse obstetric outcomes of female genital mutilation among women in rural northern Ghana (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Female genital mutilation (FGM) is commonly practiced in sub-Saharan Africa and results in adverse pregnancy outcomes among affected women. This paper assessed the prevalence and effects o
Cardiovascular diseases risk factors among recently arrived Eritrean refugees in Switzerland (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: For the past 10 years, refugees from Eritrea represented the majority of asylum seekers in Switzerland. However, data on their health status remains limited. In this cross-sectional survey
Ealamines A-H, a series of naphthylisoquinolines with the rare 7,8'-coupling site, from the Congolese liana <em>Ancistrocladus ealaensis</em>,... (Publications)
From the twigs and leaves of the Central African liana Ancistrocladus ealaensis (Ancistrocladaceae), a series of ten 7,8'-coupled naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids were isolated, comprising eight new com
Policy and socio-cultural differences between cantons in Switzerland with high and low adolescent vaccination coverage for hepatitis B and HPV (Publications)
Vaccination recommendations in Switzerland are national, but vaccine coverage varies greatly from one canton to another, particularly for vaccinations recommended in adolescence. To explain these diff
Exploring mechanochemical parameters using a DoE approach: crystal structure solution from Synchrotron XRPD and characterization of a new praziquantel... (Publications)
A rotated Doehlert matrix was utilized to explore the experimental design space around the milling parameters of Praziquantel (PZQ) polymorph B formation in terms of frequency and milling time. Three