Simon M Collin

TL;DR: In this paper, a joinpoint regression analysis of cancer-mortality statistics from Cancer Research UK (London, UK) and from the US National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) was used to estimate the annual percentage change in prostate-cancer mortality in both countries and the points in time when trends changed.

TL;DR: These results show that affordable ceramic water filters enable low-income households to treat and maintain the microbiologic quality of their drinking water.

TL;DR: The data support a lack of sunlight exposure and potentially a vegetarian diet as contributors to this deficiency and commonly associates with TB among all ethnic groups apart from white Europeans, and Chinese/South East Asians.

TL;DR: Patients with kala-azar (KA) or post-KA dermal leishmaniasis treated by Medecins Sans Frontieres-Holland in south Sudan from October 1998-May 2002 were malnourished and anemic, and a higher risk of death was associated with episodes of diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding.

TL;DR: Vitamin B12 and (in cohort studies) folate were associated with increased prostate cancer risk and further research is needed to determine whether these are causal associations.