An approach to classifying human resources constraints to attaining health-related Millennium Development Goals (Publications)
BACKGROUND: For any wide-ranging effort to scale up health-related priority interventions, human resources for health (HRH) are likely to be a key to success. This study explores constraints related t
<em>Schistosoma japonicum</em>: in vitro effects of artemether combined with haemin depend on cultivation media and appraisal of artemether products... (Publications)
We recently found that the exposure of schistosomes in vitro to artemether plus haemin can lead to parasite death, while exposure to each compound singly had no effect. Since these observations might
Tribendimidine: a promising, safe and broad-spectrum anthelmintic agent from China (Publications)
We review, for the first time, a 20-year Chinese story of research and development pertaining to tribendimidine, a promising anthelmintic agent that is safe and exhibits a broad spectrum of activity.
The psychological outcome of religious coping with stressful life events in a Swiss sample of church attendees (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Recent research suggested that religious coping, based on dispositional religiousness and spirituality (R/S), is an important modulating factor in the process of dealing with adversity. In
Metabolic alterations in the hamster co-infected with <em>Schistosoma japonicum</em> and <em>Necator americanus</em> (Publications)
Co-infection with hookworm and schistosomes is a common phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in parts of South America and southeast Asia. As a first step towards understanding the metabolic r
<em>In vitro</em> and<em> in vivo</em> activity of Solithromycin (CEM-101) against <em>Plasmodium</em> species (Publications)
With the emergence of Plasmodium falciparum infections exhibiting increased parasite clearance times in response to treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapies, the need for new therapeutic
