Explaining suicide: identifying common themes and diverse perspectives in an urban Mumbai slum (Publications)
Rates, demographics and diagnostics, which are the focus of many studies of suicide, may provide an insufficient account without adequate consideration of psychological, social and cultural contexts a
Roadside measurements of size-segregated particulate organic compounds near gasoline and diesel-dominated freeways in Los Angeles, CA (Publications)
Individual organic compounds such as hopanes and steranes (originating in lube oil) and selected polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAHs) (generated via combustion) found in particulate emissions from veh
<em>Ascaris lumbricoides</em> and <em>Trichuris trichiura</em> infections associated with wastewater and human excreta use in agriculture in Vietnam (Publications)
BACKGROUND:We assessed the risk of helminth infections in association with the use of wastewater and excreta in agriculture in Hanam province, northern Vietnam. In two cross-sectional surveys, we obta
Vaccine potentials of an intrinsically unstructured fragment derived from the blood stage-associated <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> protein PFF0165c (Publications)
We have identified new malaria vaccine candidates through the combination of bioinformatics prediction of stable protein domains in the Plasmodium falciparum genome, chemical synthesis of polypeptides
Turkish freshwater and marine macrophyte extracts show in vitro antiprotozoal activity and inhibit FabI, a key enzyme of <em>Plasmodium... (Publications)
The ethanolic extracts of a number of Turkish freshwater macrophytes (Potamogeton perfoliatus, Ranunculus tricophyllus and Cladophora glomerata) and marine macroalgae (Dictyota dichotoma, Halopteris s
Estrogen-progestin replacement therapy and endometrial cancer (Publications)
BACKGROUND: It has been known for more than 20 years that estrogen replacement therapy substantially increases a woman's risk of developing endometrial cancer. To reduce this increased risk, progestin