Cancer predisposition cascade screening for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer and lynch syndromes in Switzerland: study protocol (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Breast, colorectal, ovarian, and endometrial cancers constitute approximately 30% of newly diagnosed cancer cases in Switzerland, affecting more than 12,000 individuals annually. Hundreds
Ferrocenyl, ruthenocenyl, and benzyl oxamniquine derivatives with cross-species activity against <em>Schistosoma mansoni </em>and <em>Schistosoma... (Publications)
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that affects more than 250 million people annually, mostly children in poor, tropical, rural areas. Only one treatment (praziquantel) is available, putting contr
School children's intestinal parasite and nutritional status 1 year after complementary school garden, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene... (Publications)
The potential health benefits of combined agricultural, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions are poorly understood. We aimed to determine whether complementary school garden,
Evaluation of the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationship of praziquantel in the <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> mouse model (Publications)
After more than 40 years of use, Praziquantel (PZQ) still remains the drug of choice for the treatment of intestinal and urogenital schistosomiasis. Its anti-parasitic activity resides primarily in th
Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls (Publications)
To investigate the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) to high resolution, the GoT2D and T2D-GENES consortia catalogued variation from whole-genome sequencing of 2,657 European individuals and exom
Troubling disease syndrome in endangered live Patagonian huemul deer (<em>Hippocamelus bisulcus</em>) from the Protected Park Shoonem: unusually high... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: The last 1500 endangered Patagonian huemul deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus) exist in > 100 groups which are not recovering. Prevalence of osteopathology in dead huemul was 57+% (Argentina), whe
Occupational exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic field and risk of Alzheimer disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Occupational exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MF) occurs in many occupations such as welders, electric utility workers, train drivers and sewing machine operators