Guidelines for modeling and reporting health effects of climate change mitigation actions (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Modeling suggests that climate change mitigation actions can have substantial human health benefits that accrue quickly and locally. Documenting the benefits can help drive more ambitious
Clinical trial evidence supporting US Food and Drug Administration approval of novel cancer therapies between 2000 and 2016 (Publications)
Importance: Clinical trial evidence used to support drug approval is typically the only information on benefits and harms that patients and clinicians can use for decision-making when novel cancer the
TOURIST2 - tracking of urgent risks in Swiss travellers to the 6 main travel destinations - feasibility and ethical considerations of a smartphone... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The adoption of mHealth technology in travel medicine is a relatively new and unexplored field. We have further developed a TRAVEL application (app) for real-time data monitoring during tr
Association of activities related to pesticide exposure on headache severity and neurodevelopment of school-children in the rural agricultural... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: Children and adolescents living in agricultural areas are likely to be exposed to mixtures of pesticides during their daily activities, which may impair their neurodevelopment. We investiga
Lifelong exposure to air pollution and greenness in relation to asthma, rhinitis and lung function in adulthood (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To investigate if air pollution and greenness exposure from birth till adulthood affects adult asthma, rhinitis and lung function. METHODS: We analysed data from 3428 participants (mean ag
If I tweet will you cite later? Follow-up on the effect of social media exposure on article downloads and citations (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: We previously reported that random assignment of scientific articles to a social media exposure intervention did not have an effect on article downloads and citations. In this paper, we in
Projections of excess mortality related to diurnal temperature range under climate change scenarios: a multi-country modelling study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Various retrospective studies have reported on the increase of mortality risk due to higher diurnal temperature range (DTR). This study projects the effect of DTR on future mortality acros
A cross-sectional survey on parasitic infections in schoolchildren in a rural Tanzanian community (Publications)
Infectious diseases remain the leading cause of death in children in low- and middle-income countries. Infection with helminths and intestinal protozoa cause considerable morbidity. The aim of this st
