Risks and benefits of optimised medical and revascularisation therapy in elderly patients with angina--on-treatment analysis of the TIME trial (Publications)
AIM: To assess treatment effects of optimised medical therapy and PCI or CABG surgery on one-year outcome in patients 75 years old with chronic angina. METHODS AND RESULTS: On-treatment analysis of th
Dicationic phenyl-2,2'-bichalcophenes and analogues as antiprotozoal agents (Publications)
A series of phenyl-2,2'-bichalcophene diamidines 1a-h were synthesized from the corresponding dinitriles either via a direct reaction with LiN(TMS)(2), followed by deprotection with ethanolic HCl or t
Analogues of thiolactomycin as potential anti-malarial and anti-trypanosomal agents (Publications)
A series of analogues of the naturally occurring antibiotic thiolactomycin (TLM) have been synthesised and evaluated for their ability to inhibit the growth of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falcipa
Environmental health indicators in policy evaluation (Publications)
In carrying out two projects involving environmental health indicators--a national environmental health programme evaluation and an international environmental health indicator system--in parallel, it
Human infections with <em>Dicrocoelium dendriticum</em> in Kyrgyzstan: the tip of the iceberg? (Publications)
Abstract Dicrocoelium dendriticum is the causative agent of a rare food-borne zoonosis of the human biliary tract, dicrocoeliasis, for which few human prevalence data are available. Infection occurs t
The first years of implementation of the Swiss National Environment and Health Action Plan (NEHAP): lessons for environmental health promotion (Publications)
The National Environment and Health Action Plans (NEHAPs) are a novel attempt to integrate environmental protection and health promotion in political programmes. Throughout Europe, about 40 NEHAPs hav
The European Community Respiratory Health Survey: what are the main results so far? European Community Respiratory Health Survey II (Publications)
The European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) was the first study to assess the geographical variation in asthma and allergy in adults using the same instruments and definitions. The databa
Annoyance due to air pollution in Europe (Publications)
Background: Annoyance due to air pollution is a subjective score of air quality, which has been incorporated into the National Environmental monitoring of some countries. The objectives of this study
Response to [90Yttrium-DOTA]-TOC treatment is associated with long-term survival benefit in metastasized medullary thyroid cancer: a phase II clinical... (Publications)
PURPOSE: We aimed to explore the efficacy of (90)Yttrium-1,4,7,10-tetra-azacyclododecane N,N',N'',N-'''-tetraacetic acid ((90)Y-DOTA)-Tyr(3)-octreotide (TOC) therapy in advanced medullary thyroid canc
