Global health initiative investments and health systems strengthening: a content analysis of global fund investments (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Millions of dollars are invested annually under the umbrella of national health systems strengthening. Global health initiatives provide funding for low- and middle-income countries throug
Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in the Basel city population 1989-1990 (Publications)
In the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt, the levels of the major cardiovascular risk factors were measured in 1989/90 in a representative sample of 533 inhabitants (252 men and 281 women) aged 25 to 74. So
Strain diversity, epistasis and the evolution of drug resistance in<em> Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> (Publications)
Clin Microbiol Infect 2011; 17: 815-820 ABSTRACT: Mycobacterium tuberculosis harbours little DNA sequence diversity compared with other bacteria. However, there is mounting evidence that strain-to-str
Psychological stress in patients with environmentally-induced disorders. A comparison between self concept and expert assessment (Publications)
Environmental illnesses raise diagnostic and therapeutic conflicts in scientific discussions and clinical practice. When a patient's health-belief model, based on environmental origins, does not match
Identification of a cis-acting DNA-protein interaction implicated in singular var gene choice in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most severe form of malaria in humans. Antigenic variation of P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 leads to immune evasion and occurs through switc