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Roche’s Valium inventor dies in US

This content was published on Sep 30, 2005 As recently as 1994, Roche products with the name “Sternbach” on their patents accounted for more than a quarter of the company’s worldwide drug revenues. “Within every company there are one or two people whose legacy becomes the hallmark of what the company is all about. For Roche, that is Dr Sternbach,” said George Abercrombie,…

“Energy towns” prove a success story

This content was published on Sep 29, 2005 So far 120 Swiss local authorities have been designated “energy towns” – a sign of consistent and efficient energy policies. All the Swiss local authorities, cities and regions that have been labelled “energy towns” have made it their goal to reduce energy consumption, promote renewable sources, organise environmentally friendly transport and more. Thirty-seven per cent…

Congress addresses age-old issues

This content was published on Sep 29, 2005 Some 400 experts including academics, former ministers, representatives of the United Nations and various non-governmental organisations are attending the three-day 2005 World Ageing & Generations Congress. Marcel Bischof, head of Viva 50plus, a Swiss voluntary organisation concerned with demographic and generational topics and the organisers of the congress, says one of the key areas is…

Religious historian wins science prize

This content was published on Sep 26, 2005 Considered the Swiss version of the Nobel Prize, it has been awarded annually since 1920 to Swiss or people living in Switzerland for outstanding scientific research. The distinction, which comes with a prize of SFr100,000 ($77,295), is to recognize the 68-year-old Keel’s work on permitting a better understanding of the historic and cultural context of…

Exhibition tackles old stereotypes

This content was published on Sep 26, 2005 “Sixty-six: An exhibition on becoming old and grey” runs at the Museum Baselland until August 2006. “Old age is associated with illness and loneliness,” museum spokeswoman Claudia Pantellini told swissinfo. “We were struck by the one-sided view of old people.” “But there’s also this contrasting image of the ‘super grannies and granddads’, who are constantly…

Cases of tick-borne disease double

This content was published on Sep 24, 2005 It said this week 141 cases of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) had been reported in Switzerland by mid August – 55 per cent more than in the same period last year. The Health Office is recommending that people living in affected areas get vaccinated against the disease, which can kill. Regional variations are pronounced, with about…

Swiss stay put as Hurricane Rita approaches

This content was published on Sep 23, 2005 The storm heading towards the United States Gulf Coast is expected to be at least as powerful as Katrina, the hurricane which devastated New Orleans less than a month ago. President Bush has declared a state of emergency in Texas and the neighbouring state of Louisiana. Forecasters predict Rita could hit the coast of Texas…

Remembering the struggle for peace

This content was published on Sep 21, 2005 Organisers say the meeting aims to remind the public that hundreds of millions of people around the world have to contend with the ravages of war every day. In the final decades of the 19th century, a number of peace movements arose in Europe. They represented a wide political spectrum ranging from liberalism to socialism…

Greenpeace calls for a climate council

This content was published on Sep 19, 2005 By demonstrating outside the parliament in Bern on Monday, Greenpeace wanted to ensure that it wasn’t just business as usual after the floods in August. The organisation said that in the autumn parliamentary session the Swiss government should set up a committee comprising the “most able and progressive thinkers”. This committee’s goal would be to…

Couchepin’s Israel visit focused on science

This content was published on Sep 18, 2005 Accompanying Couchepin was a delegation of Swiss academics, who insisted that any collaboration should include Palestinian researchers. The group included Olaf Kübler, president of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Urs Altermatt, rector of Fribourg University, Marcel Tanner, head of the Swiss Tropical Institute and Michel Aguet, director of the Swiss Institute for Experimental…

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