Full-chain health impact assessment of traffic-related air pollution and childhood asthma (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children. Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) may be an important exposure contributing to its development. In the UK, Bradford is a deprived
Emergency Medical Service (EMS) utilization by Syrian refugees residing in Ankara, Turkey (Publications)
Introduction Many Syrians have left their country and migrated to other countries since March 2011, due to the civil war. As of March 2016, a total of 2,747,946 Syrian refugees had immigrated to Turke
Effects of intensive use of computers in secondary school on gender differences in attitudes towards ICT: a systematic review (Publications)
There is a wealth of interventions focusing on the intensive use of computers in secondary schools, largely aiming at improving students' performance. However, global evidence on the effects of the us
Outdoor air pollution, exhaled 8-isoprostane and current asthma in adults: the EGEA study (Publications)
Associations between outdoor air pollution and asthma in adults are still scarce, and the underlying biological mechanisms are poorly understood. Our aim was to study the associations between 1) long-
Efficacy and safety of co-administered ivermectin plus albendazole for treating soil-transmitted helminths: a systematic review meta-analysis and... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The soil-transmitted helminths (STH), Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworms infect 1.5 billion people worldwide and cause an estimated burden of 3.3 million disability-ad
Antiprotozoal diterpenes from <em>Perovskia abrotanoides</em> (Publications)
As part of a screening for new antiparasitic natural products from Iranian plants, n-hexane and ethyl acetate extracts from the aerial parts of Perovskia abrotanoides were found to exhibit strong inhi