Dual-emitting cyclometalated Ir(III) complexes with salicylaldimine-bound fluorophores for ratiometric oxygen sensing.

A new class of oxygen-sensing dual-emitting cyclometalated Ir(III) complexes is described. They function as ratiometric sensors that combine the blue fluorescence from coumarin as a self-referenced internal standard with yellow to red phosphorescence from bis-cyclometalated iridium complexes. The compounds have phosphorescence quantum yields up to 15%, lifetimes ranging from 0.23 to 9.4 µs, and are capable of sensing a wide range of O2 partial pressures.

Two new antidiabetic xanthones from the twigs of Garcinia oblongifolia.

Two new xanthones, oblongixanthones I (1) and J (2), and seven known compounds (3-9), were isolated from an EtOAc extract of the twigs of Garcinia oblongifolia. Their structures were elucidated using spectroscopic methods, mainly 1 D and 2 D NMR. The antidiabetic effects of the two new compounds were evaluated using α-glucosidase and PTP1B inhibition assays. Both compounds displayed strong inhibition towards α-glucosidase with IC50 values of 258.7 ± 49.3 and 187.1 ± 27.5 µM, respectively (compared with acarbose, IC50 = 900.0 ± 3.0 µM) and moderate effects against PTP1B with IC50 values of 93.9 ± 12.3 and 64.1 ± 5.8 µM, respectively (compared with RK682, IC50 = 4.4 ± 0.3 l µM).

A new paradigm for disease surveillance in Vietnam.

Medical surveillance data from all government health clinics in Vietnam are currently collected through a slow, paper-driven process. Short message service (SMS) technology delivered through mobile phones offers a simple solution to improving the speed through which disease surveillance information can be collected. Identifying health concerns earlier with this mobile-based disease surveillance system has the potential to improve the care for patients seen at community health clinics as well as predict more quickly that a medical emergency, such as a pandemic, will occur. Thus, we piloted the feasibility of an SMS-based disease surveillance system designed for healthcare workers in Vietnam to directly report disease information on diarrhea and influenza-like illness to a central data repository using their mobile phones and an intuitive, user-friendly platform. This article reports data from 1,579 patient data entries in 20 Vietnamese health clinics during a 6-month period.