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Drug-resistant tuberculosis: time for visionary political leadership

Two decades ago, WHO declared tuberculosis a global emergency, and invested in the highly cost-effective directly observed treatment short-course programme to control the epidemic. At that time, most strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were susceptible t ...

Elsevier2013

Towards a new tuberculosis drug: pyridomycin - nature's isoniazid

Stewart Cole, Florence Pojer, Claudia Sala, Ruben Hartkoorn, Joao Pedro De Almeida Neres, Swapna Uplekar, Raju Mukherjee, Sophie Magnet

Tuberculosis, a global threat to public health, is becoming untreatable due to widespread drug resistance to frontline drugs such as the InhA-inhibitor isoniazid. Historically, by inhibiting highly vulnerable targets, natural products have been an importan ...

Wiley Open Access2012

Dynamics and control of diseases in networks with community structure

Marcel Salathé

The dynamics of infectious diseases spread via direct person-to-person transmission (such as influenza, smallpox, HIV/AIDS, etc.) depends on the underlying host contact network. Human contact networks exhibit strong community structure. Understanding how s ...

Public Library of Science2010

A new highly penetrant form of obesity due to deletions on chromosome 16p11.2

Nouchine Hadjikhani, Fei Chen

Obesity has become a major worldwide challenge to public health, owing to an interaction between the Western 'obesogenic' environment and a strong genetic contribution(1). Recent extensive genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified numerous si ...

2010

Towards an information system on the water system

André Mermoud, Colin Schenk, Bastien Roquier

Integrated water resources management is generally considered a relevant methodology given the pressing necessity to use water in a sustainable manner. However, its application framework still needs refinements. As a first step towards the creation of such ...

2007

Drinking to their health: social analysis of a micronutrient-fortified beverage field trial

Martin Benjamin

Anthropologic research was conducted among pregnant and lactating women in rural Tanzania in conjunction with clinical trials of a micronutrient-fortified beverage. Use of the beverage was examined through interviews and ethnographic observation in clinics ...

2004

Etat du Valais : Système d’Information sanitaire unique et intégré

Philippe Wieser

Chaque canton suisse (26 cantons) définit sa politique et sa planification sanitaire. La complexité actuelle des systèmes de santé ainsi que la multitude de systèmes d'information contribuent à l'augmentation continue des coûts de la santé et peuvent condu ...

2003

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