Is fever a good sign for clinical malaria in surveys of endemic communities? (Publications)
individuals. Without diagnosis of individual episodes, prevalences of malaria-attributable morbidity of 9.8% in infants, 1.3% in children 1-4 years of age, and 0.6% in those 5-9 years of age were estimated. No
Evaluation of robot-assisted gait training using integrated biofeedback in neurologic disorders (Publications)
disorders. METHODS: 84 subjects (50 men and 34 women, mean age of 58+/-13years) were followed over 8 RAGT sessions. Outcome measures were biofeedback values as weighted averages of torques measured in
Synthesis and antiprotozoal activity of dicationic 2, 6-diphenylpyrazines and aza-analogues (Publications)
models. Most diamidines gave poly(dA-dT)2 ?Tm values greater than pentamidine, IC50 values: T. b. r. (4.8-37nM) and P. f. (10-52nM). Most diamidines and prodrugs gave cures for STIB900 model (11, 19a and 24b
Environmental, dietary, maternal, and fetal predictors of bulky DNA adducts in cord blood: a European mother-child study (NewGeneris) (Publications)
Spanish neonates had higher adduct levels than the Northern European neonates (median: 12.1 (n=179) vs. 6.8 (n=332) adducts per 108 nucleotides, p
Cinnamoylphenethyl amides from <em>Polygonum hyrcanicum</em> possess anti-trypanosomal activity (Publications)
including N-trans-caffeoyltyramine (1), N-trans-p-coumaroyltyramine (7), and N-trans-feruloyltyramine (8) as the main active constituents (IC50s ranging from 2.2 to 13.3 microM). Some structurally related
Exclusive breastfeeding rates and associated factors in Swiss baby-friendly hospitals (Publications)
38% were exclusively breast milk fed in Baby-Friendly maternity wards, and proportions varied from 8% to 85% among hospitals. The strongest determinants for exclusive breastfeeding were health facility
High blood pressure: prevalence and adherence to guidelines in a population-based cohort (Publications)
had doctor-diagnosed hypertension and, although 82.1% of these received drug treatments, in only 40.8% was blood pressure controlled (
<em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> egg excretion does not increase after exercise: implications for diagnostic testing (Publications)
positivity for S. haematobium (25.7% versus 23.0%, P = 0.31) and mean egg counts (10.2 eggs/10 mL versus 8.5 eggs/10 mL, P = 0.45) did not differ. Exercise before urine collection does not appear to increase
SAR of a new antischistosomal urea carboxylic acid (Publications)
analogs of lead urea carboxylic acid 2 were quite polar with LogD7.4 values ranging from -1.9 to 1.8, had high aqueous solubilities in the range of 25-100microg/mL, and were metabolically stable. None
The effect of antenna polarization and body morphology on the measurement uncertainty of a wearable multi-band distributed exposure meter (Publications)
a device for assessing electromagnetic fields in real environments accurately. The BWDM consists of 8 nodes and is calibrated on the body for simultaneous measurement of the incident power density in four
