Are overweight and obesity in children risk factors for anemia in early childhood? Results from a national nutrition survey in Tajikistan (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To assess the association between overweight/obesity and anemia in early childhood in Tajikistan. METHODS: Using a two-stage-cluster sampling, a representative sample of 1342 children (48.
Self-nanoemulsifying drug-delivery systems improve oral absorption and antischistosomal activity of epiisopiloturine (Publications)
AIM: To develop a self-nanoemulsifying drug-delivery system (SNEDDS) able to improve oral absorption of epiisopiloturine (EPI), and test the antischistosomal activity in a mice model. RESULTS: SNEDDS
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
ISSOP position statement on migrant child health (Publications)
Greater numbers of children are on the move than ever before. In 2015, the number of forcibly displaced people across the globe reached 65.3 million. Of the more than 1 million migrants, asylum seeker
Emergence and genomic diversification of a virulent serogroup W:ST-2881(CC175) <em>Neisseria meningitidis</em> clone in the African meningitis belt (Publications)
Countries of the African 'meningitis belt' are susceptible to meningococcal meningitis outbreaks. While in the past major epidemics have been primarily caused by serogroup A meningococci, W strains ar