Factors associated with health-related quality of life among home-dwelling older adults aged 75 or older in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: HRQoL is an indicator of individuals' perception of their overall health, including social and environmental aspects. As a multidimensional concept, HRQoL can be influenced by a multitude
Persistent high burden and mortality associated with advanced HIV disease in rural Tanzania despite uptake of World Health Organization "test and... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Information about burden, characteristics, predictors, and outcomes of advanced human immunodeficiency virus disease (AHD) is scarce in rural settings of sub-Saharan Africa. Human immunode
Acceptability of pre-referral rectal artesunate for severe malaria in children under 5 years by health workers and caregivers in the Democratic... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: For children below 6 years with suspected severe malaria attending a health care provider unable to provide parenteral malaria treatment, pre-referral rectal artesunate (RAS) is recommende
Acute exposure to simulated nocturnal train noise leads to impaired sleep quality and endothelial dysfunction in young healthy men and women: a... (Publications)
A series of human field studies demonstrated that simulated nocturnal traffic noise exposure impaired sleep quality and endothelial function, which could be significantly improved after intake of vita
Specialised Paediatric PAlliativE CaRe: assessing family, healthcare professionals and health system outcomes in a multi-site context of various care... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The number of children and adolescents living with life-limiting conditions and potentially in need for specialised paediatric palliative care (SPPC) is rising. Ideally, a specialised mult
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
Multi-center screening of the Pathogen Box collection for schistosomiasis drug discovery (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Over the past five years, as a public service to encourage and accelerate drug discovery for diseases of poverty, the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) has released box sets of 400 compo
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