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Heart centre sets pace in medicine row

This content was published on May 26, 2006 Their accord comes amid heated debate over a proposed reform of specialised medicine in Switzerland and against a background of increasing health costs. Under Switzerland’s federalist structure, cantons enjoy a high degree of autonomy in health matters. The country has one of the best, but also one of the most expensive health systems in the…

Committees call for ban on great ape testing

This content was published on May 24, 2006 But the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where testing on small marmoset monkeys triggered off the commissions’ report, rejected the findings as subjective. The Swiss Ethics Committee on Non-human Biotechnology and the Swiss Committee on Animal Experiments this week published a report calling for “extreme caution” when approving experiments on primates owing to their…

Strict upbringing “can harm children”

This content was published on May 24, 2006 The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) research into education and discipline at home found that children from “participative” rather than strict families do better at school. “Our results send a very different message to the one we have been hearing recently – especially from child psychiatrists – that parents need to be stricter with their…

Novartis launches anti-malaria alliance

This content was published on May 23, 2006 The Wellcome Trust charity, the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), and Geneva-based non-profit organisation Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), will assist in the hunt for a one-dose malaria cure. Novartis already produces a malaria drug, Coartem, which it provides at cost price to developing countries which suffer an estimated one million deaths a year from…

Study calls for action over youth violence

This content was published on May 23, 2006 A solution to youth violence is more likely to be found in wide-ranging prevention measures that start at a young age, say the report’s authors. The Foreigners Commission’s president, Francis Matthey, said in Bern on Tuesday that violent young foreigners were overrepresented in the crime statistics. However, he said that the commission believed that the…

Sound feeling

This content was published on May 22, 2006

Portrait of a football hooligan

This content was published on May 19, 2006 According to two Swiss experts, those responsible for the violence inside and outside Basel’s St Jakob stadium are young, integrated into society and apolitical. Many people believe that violent football supporters are outsiders with links to the far right, but Thomas Busset, a sociologist from the International Centre for Sports Studies at Neuchâtel University, says…

Europe tops agenda at St Gallen symposium

This content was published on May 18, 2006 While the global economy has been posting above-average growth of late, Europe has shown sluggish business activity and unemployment remains alarmingly high. “We’ll be examining to what extent innovation and new approaches from Asia can bring this continent back to life and raise motivation,” Davina Geiser, one of the members of the International Students’ Committee…

Discovery could help in hunt for alien life

This content was published on May 17, 2006 The findings, which researchers say could help in the hunt for planets that support life, were published on Thursday in the science journal Nature. “This discovery is an important step in our quest for a similar solar system to our own,” Michel Mayor, professor of astronomy at Geneva University, told swissinfo. The “unusual” new planetary…

european projects provide no easy solutions

This content was published on May 17, 2006 Philippe Renaud, a nanotechnology specialist at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, adds that focusing only on European Union targets could be counterproductive. Swiss researchers have taken part in the fourth, fifth and sixth European framework programmes. These programmes have been the most important tools of the EU’s research and development policies. swissinfo: What…

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