Methods and data needs to assess health impacts of chemicals in industrial contaminated sites (Publications)
BACKGROUND: human exposure to mixtures of chemicals of toxicological interest, typically found in industrial contaminated sites (ICSs), has been associated with a broad range of different health outco
Interventional cardiac catheterization predictors at Al-Arabi Heart Center in Palestine in 2017 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Cardiac catheterization is performed for both therapeutic and diagnostic reasons, in which the outcome may vary from only medical treatment to the need of percutaneous coronary interventio
Does the oxidative stress play a role in the associations between outdoor air pollution and persistent asthma in adults? Findings from the EGEA study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Evidences that oxidative stress plays a role in the associations between outdoor air pollution and asthma are growing. We aimed to study the role of plasma fluorescent oxidation products l
Mass campaigns combining antimalarial drugs and anti-infective vaccines as seasonal interventions for malaria control, elimination and prevention of... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The only licensed malaria vaccine, RTS,S/AS01, has been developed for morbidity-control in young children. The potential impact on transmission of deploying such anti-infective vaccines to
Detection of second line drug resistance among drug resistant <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> isolates in Botswana (Publications)
The emergence and transmission of multidrug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) strains is a threat to global tuberculosis (TB) control. The early de
Industrial contaminated sites and health: results of a European survey (Publications)
BACKGROUND: industrially contaminated sites (ICSs) have been recognised as a major public health concern since they involve exposure to multiple environmental stressors, normally distributed unevenly
Contextual and socioeconomic variation in early motor and language development (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To compare early motor and language development of children
Self-reported sleep disturbance from road, rail and aircraft noise: exposure-response relationships and effect modifiers in the SiRENE Study (Publications)
This survey investigates the cross-sectional association between nighttime road, rail and aircraft noise exposure and the probability to be highly sleep disturbed (%HSD), as measured by self-report in
