WHO antenatal care randomised trial for the evaluation of a new model of routine antenatal care (Publications)
Background We undertook a multicentre randomised controlled trial that compared the standard model of antenatal care with a new model that emphasises actions known to be effective in improving materna
<em>Schistosoma japonicum</em>: effect of artemether on glutathione <em>S</em>-transferase and superoxide dismutase (Publications)
Glutathione S-transferase (GST) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) are major antioxidant enzymes of schistosomes that are involved in detoxification processes. To study the effect of artemether on these e
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
Source apportionment of PM2.5 and selected hazardous air pollutants in Seattle (Publications)
The potential benefits of combining the speciated PM(2.5) and VOCs data in source apportionment analysis for identification of additional sources remain unclear. We analyzed the speciated PM(2.5) and
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
Effect of artemether against <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> in experimentally infected hamsters (Publications)
The drug, artemether, has been shown to be active against the juvenile stages of Schistosoma japonicum and Schistosoma mansoni in experimentally infected animals, while it is less effective on adult w
