Measuring and validating physical activity and sedentary behavior comparing a parental questionnaire to accelerometer data and diaries (Publications)
Accurately measuring children's physical activity and their sedentary behavior is challenging. The present study compared 189 parental responses to a questionnaire surveying physical activity and sede
Synthesis, structure-activity relationship, and mode-of-action studies of antimalarial reversed chloroquine compounds (Publications)
We have previously shown that a "reversed chloroquine (RCQ)" molecule, composed of a chloroquine-like moiety and a resistance reversal-like moiety, can overcome chloroquine resistance in P. falciparum
Personal and environmental factors associated with active commuting to school in Switzerland (Publications)
Objective. To assess whether prevalence of active commuting and regular car trips to school varies across communities and language regions in Switzerland and to determine personal and environmental co
Chemotherapy against human African trypanosomiasis: is there a road to success? (Publications)
SUMMARYFor over fifty years, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness) has been treated with suramin, pentamidine and the very toxic organo-arsenical melarsoprol that was the only drug av
Nonirritant intradermal skin test concentrations of ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin, and rifampicin (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intradermal skin testing of the clinically important antibiotics ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin, and rifampicin in the case of suspected allergies to antibiotics is poorly standardized. For
Assessment of intensity, prevalence and duration of everyday activities in Swiss school children: a cross-sectional analysis of accelerometer and... (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Appropriately measuring habitual physical activity (PA) in children is a major challenge. Questionnaires and accelerometers are the most widely used instruments but both have wel