Nationwide analysis of the heat- and cold-related mortality trends in Switzerland between 1969 and 2017: the role of population aging (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Because older adults are particularly vulnerable to nonoptimal temperatures, it is expected that the progressive population aging will amplify the health burden attributable to heat and co
Ready-to-go questionnaire - development and validation of a novel medical pre-travel risk stratification tool (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There are no validated pre-travel self-assessment tools to stratify travellers' health risks and identify their needs for pre-travel medical preparation. This study presents a novel pre-tr
Long-term air pollution exposure and pneumonia related mortality in a large pooled European cohort (Publications)
RATIONALE: Ambient air pollution exposure has been linked to mortality from chronic cardiorespiratory diseases, while evidence on respiratory infections remains more limited. OBJECTIVES: We examined t
Modeling exposure to airborne metals using moss biomonitoring in cemeteries in two urban areas around Paris and Lyon in France (Publications)
Exposure of the general population to airborne metals remains poorly estimated despite the potential health risks. Passive moss biomonitoring can proxy air quality at fine resolution over large areas,
Combination of MALDI-TOf mass spectrometry and machine learning for rapid antimicrobial resistance screening: the CASE of <em>Campylobacter </em>spp (Publications)
While MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry (MS) is widely considered as the reference method for the rapid and inexpensive identification of microorganisms in routine laboratories, less attention has been addr
Travel behaviours and health outcomes during travel: profiling destination-specific risks in a prospective mHealth cohort of Swiss travellers (Publications)
BACKGROUND: We used a mobile application to determine the incidence of health events and risk behaviours during travel by country and identify which health risks are significantly elevated during trav
Malnutrition, anemia, micronutrient deficiency and parasitic infections among schoolchildren in rural Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malnutrition, anemia, micronutrient deficiency and parasitic infections continue to impact the nutritional status and health of children in lower-income countries, however not enough data
Investigational medicinal products, related costs and hospital pharmacy services for investigator-initiated trials: a mixed-methods study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Conducting high quality investigator-initiated trials (IITs) is challenging and costly. The costs of investigational medicinal products (IMPs) in IITs and the role of hospital pharmacies i
<em>Mycobacterium leprae</em> infection in a wild nine-banded armadillo, Nuevo León, Mexico (Publications)
Nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) are naturally infected with Mycobacterium leprae and are implicated in the zoonotic transmission of leprosy in the United States. In Mexico, the existence
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and asthma symptom score in the CONSTANCES cohort (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The asthma symptom score allows to consider asthma as a continuum and to investigate its risk factors. One previous study has investigated the association between asthma score and air poll
