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
Misdiagnosis of leprosy in Brazil in the period 2003-2017: spatial pattern and associated factors (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Leprosy causes a range of symptoms, and most diagnoses are established based on the clinical picture. Therefore, false negative and positive diagnoses are relatively common. We analyzed th
Emergence of artemisinin-resistant <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> with <em>kelch13 </em>C580Y mutations on the island of New Guinea (Publications)
The rapid and aggressive spread of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum carrying the C580Y mutation in the kelch13 gene is a growing threat to malaria elimination in Southeast Asia, but there i