Publications related to Allied health professions

Development and validation of a multiplex real-time qPCR assay using GMP-grade reagents for leprosy diagnosis

Stewart Cole, Charlotte Avanzi, Thyago Leal Calvo

Author summaryLeprosy is a chronic dermato-neurological disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an obligate intracellular bacterium. Diagnosis of leprosy often relies on skin examinations for clinical signs, bacilli staining from skin smears and invasive s ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2022

Contactless Sleep Monitoring for Early Detection of Health Deteriorations in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Exploratory Study

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Philipp Buluschek, Bruno Pais

Background: Population aging is posing multiple social and economic challenges to society. One such challenge is the social and economic burden related to increased health care expenditure caused by early institutionalizations. The use of modern pervasive ...

JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC2021

Adaptive damage retention mechanism enables healthier yeast population

Riccardo Dainese

During cytokinesis in budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) damaged proteins are distributed asymmetrically between the daughter and the mother cell. Retention of damaged proteins is a crucial mechanism ensuring a healthy daughter cell with full replica ...

ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Online Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection on Medical Wearable Sensors

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Srinivasan Murali, Grégoire Casimir Joseph Surrel

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is one of the main under-diagnosed sleep disorder. It is an aggravating factor for several serious cardiovascular diseases, including stroke. There is, however, a lack of medical devices for long-term ambulatory monitoring of ...

2018

Real-time classification technique for early detection and prevention of myocardial infarction on wearable devices

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Dionisije Sopic

Continuous monitoring of patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases and, in particular, myocardial infarction (MI) places a considerable burden on health-care systems and government budgets. The rise of wearable devices alleviates this burden, allowin ...

IEEE2017

Switzerland and the Digital Health Revolution

Didier Trono

New technologies in life sciences are helping to revolutionize health management with the objective to move towards personalized healthcare. The Swiss Federal government is investing in multidisciplinary, countrywide initiatives such as Health 2030 to meet ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2016

Touch-Based System for Beat-to-Beat Impedance Cardiogram Acquisition and Hemodynamic Parameters Estimation

David Atienza Alonso, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Srinivasan Murali, Dionisije Sopic

Among all cardiovascular diseases, congestive heart failure (CHF) has a very high rate of hospitalization and mortality. In order to prevent hospitalization, there is a strong need to identify patients at risk of a CHF event by estimating a set of relevant ...

IEEE/ACM Press2016

Persistent spatial clusters of high body mass index in a Swiss urban population as revealed by the 5-year GeoCoLaus longitudinal study

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Murielle Bochud, Joël Chételat, Fred Michel Paccaud

OBJECTIVE Body mass index (BMI) may cluster in space among adults and be spatially dependent. Whether and how BMI clusters evolve over time in a population is currently unknown. We aimed to determine the spatial dependence of BMI and its 5-year evolution i ...

Bmj Publishing Group2016

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Allied health professions

Development and validation of a multiplex real-time qPCR assay using GMP-grade reagents for leprosy diagnosis

Contactless Sleep Monitoring for Early Detection of Health Deteriorations in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Exploratory Study

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Precision Global Health - The case of Ebola: a scoping review

Adaptive damage retention mechanism enables healthier yeast population

Online Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection on Medical Wearable Sensors

Real-time classification technique for early detection and prevention of myocardial infarction on wearable devices

Switzerland and the Digital Health Revolution

Touch-Based System for Beat-to-Beat Impedance Cardiogram Acquisition and Hemodynamic Parameters Estimation

Persistent spatial clusters of high body mass index in a Swiss urban population as revealed by the 5-year GeoCoLaus longitudinal study

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Adaptive damage retention mechanism enables healthier yeast population

Contactless Sleep Monitoring for Early Detection of Health Deteriorations in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Exploratory Study

Development and validation of a multiplex real-time qPCR assay using GMP-grade reagents for leprosy diagnosis

Precision Global Health - The case of Ebola: a scoping review

Switzerland and the Digital Health Revolution

Touch-Based System for Beat-to-Beat Impedance Cardiogram Acquisition and Hemodynamic Parameters Estimation

Real-time classification technique for early detection and prevention of myocardial infarction on wearable devices

Reader engagement with medical content on Wikipedia

Online Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection on Medical Wearable Sensors

Persistent spatial clusters of high body mass index in a Swiss urban population as revealed by the 5-year GeoCoLaus longitudinal study