Effects of animal-assisted therapy on concentration and attention span in patients with acquired brain injury: a randomized controlled trial (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: Previous studies have reported that brain-injured patients frequently suffer from cognitive impairments such as attention and concentration deficits. Numerous rehabilitation clinics offer a
Dietary patterns, dietary biomarkers, and kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes: a repeated-measure study in Taiwan (Publications)
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Western dietary patterns have been linked with kidney disease. This study investigated the association between Chinese dietary patterns and kidney disease in a Taiwanese pop
Safety of live vaccines on immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory therapy-a retrospective study in three Swiss travel clinics (Publications)
Background: Patients increasingly benefit from immunosuppressive/immunomodulatory medications for a range of conditions allowing them a lifestyle similar to healthy individuals, including travel. Howe
Sesquiterpene lactones from <em>Vernonia cinerascens </em>sch. bip. and their <em>in vitro</em> antitrypanosomal activity (Publications)
In the endeavor to obtain new antitrypanosomal agents, particularly sesquiterpene lactones, from Kenyan plants of the family Asteraceae, Vernonia cinerascens Sch. Bip. was investigated. Bioactivity-gu
Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks (Publications)
We examined common variation in asthma risk by conducting a meta-analysis of worldwide asthma genome-wide association studies (23,948 asthma cases, 118,538 controls) of individuals from ethnically div
Retrospective active case finding in Cambodia: an innovative approach to leprosy control in a low-endemic country (Publications)
Currently, leprosy control relies on the clinical diagnosis of leprosy and the subsequent administration of multidrug therapy (MDT). However, many health workers are not familiar with the cardinal sig