Two successful decades of Swiss collaborations to develop new anti-malarials (Publications)
Over the last two decades there has been a renaissance in the pipeline of new drugs targeting malaria, with the launch of new products that help save the lives of children throughout the world. In add
The Healthy Baby Flipbook: piloting home-based counseling for refugee mothers to improve infant feeding and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)... (Publications)
Problems in growth and undernutrition manifest in early infancy, with suboptimal breastfeeding and inadequate complementary feeding remaining strong risk factors for chronic undernutrition in infants.
Occupational exposures and incidence of chronic bronchitis and related symptoms over two decades: the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Chronic bronchitis (CB) is an important chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related phenotype, with distinct clinical features and prognostic implications. Occupational exposures
Current use and costs of electronic health records for clinical trial research: a descriptive study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Electronic health records (EHRs) may support randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We aimed to describe the current use and costs of EHRs in RCTs, with a focus on recruitment and outcome as
Diagnoses made in an emergency department in rural sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Information on diagnoses made in emergency departments situated in rural sub-Saharan Africa is scarce. The aim was: to evaluate the frequency of different diagnoses made in a new emergency
Association of long-term exposure to traffic-related PM10 with heart rate variability and heart rate dynamics in healthy subjects (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Epidemiological evidence on the influence of long-term exposure to traffic-related particulate matter (TPM10) on heart rate variability (HRV) is weak. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the associatio
Challenges and opportunities for cancer predisposition cascade screening for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and lynch syndrome in Switzerland:... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: An international workshop on cancer predisposition cascade genetic screening for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) and Lynch syndrome (LS) took place in Switzerland, with leading
Antimalarial pyrido[1,2-<em>a</em>]benzimidazole derivatives with mannich base side chains: synthesis, pharmacological evaluation and reactive... (Publications)
A novel series of pyrido[1,2-a]benzimidazoles bearing Mannich base side chain and their metabolites were synthesised and evaluated for antiplasmodium activity, microsomal metabolic stability, reactive
Potential factors influencing lymphatic filariasis transmission in “hotspot” and “control” areas in Ghana: the importance of vectors (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Mass drug administration (MDA) programmes for the control of lymphatic filariasis in Ghana, have been ongoing in some endemic districts for 16 years. The current study aimed to assess fact