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Doctors face off over homeopathy

This content was published on Sep 9, 2005 The debate comes in the wake of a decision by the federal authorities to exclude alternative medicines from compulsory health insurance. Researchers led by Matthias Egger of Bern University’s department of social and preventive medicine recently stirred up a hornet’s nest by claiming that homeopathic treatments were no better than giving patients sugar pills. They…

Swiss GM crop trial yields positive results

This content was published on Sep 8, 2005 But a lengthy legal battle and extra security needed to protect the site from protesters caused the project to burst its original budget threefold. The test, conducted at Lindau near Zurich, confirmed laboratory results that the KP4 gene improved wheat’s resistance to fungi by 10 per cent. Safety tests on pollen distribution and soil analysis…

Freak weather is “indication” of global warming

This content was published on Sep 8, 2005 The head of the Swiss environment agency warned on Thursday that Switzerland could face an increased incidence of natural disasters, and said maps were being prepared to identify the areas at greatest risk. Roch was speaking to swissinfo after violent storms brought flooding to southern France – the latest in a series of weather-related disasters.…

Scientists call for approval of labour accord

This content was published on Sep 5, 2005 At a media conference in the capital, Bern, on Monday, they said that international cooperation was vital for science and research in Switzerland. Swiss voters will have the final say on extending a labour accord to the ten new EU member states, mainly in eastern Europe. The agreement is part of a first set of…

US requests emergency aid from Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 4, 2005 In a separate development, the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has set up a website to help reunite families divided by the disaster. The Swiss foreign ministry said the US embassy in Bern had on Sunday submitted a list to the government of items it required. The ministry did not specify what…

Are Millennium Goals out of reach?

This content was published on Sep 4, 2005 Walter Fust, head of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), says progress is being made but insists there is much work to be done. In 2000 Switzerland joined 188 other nations in signing the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which includes eight goals (see Key Facts). The main aim of the MDGs is to…

Battle against illiteracy goes on

This content was published on Sep 4, 2005 The president of the advocacy group Read and Write called for more funds to tackle the problem of illiteracy. She was speaking ahead of International Literacy Day on September 8. Some 860 million people – one fifth of the world’s population – are unable to read or write, or have problems doing so. In Switzerland,…

New Orleans relief effort “unacceptable”

This content was published on Sep 2, 2005 Musician Andi Hoffmann and his family left their home in the Carrollton area of the city in the early hours of Sunday morning, only having time to pack some clothes – and his guitar – into their car. The Hoffmanns, originally from Bern, have lived in New Orleans since 1993. They fled their home for…

Controversial art exhibit to go on show again

This content was published on Sep 1, 2005 The decision by the Bern Fine Arts Museum comes just over a week after a group of experts concluded there were no legal or ethical grounds for banning it. The work forms part of the Mahjong temporary exhibition of 340 pieces of contemporary Chinese art, which has been on show at the museum since June…

Swiss firm buys Miele kitchen division

This content was published on Sep 1, 2005 The value of the deal has not been revealed but analysts estimate that the price was around SFr30 million ($24 million). The acquisition makes the Swiss group one of the major European players in this sector. AFG will take over the production site at Warendorf in Germany and continue to employ the 300 people working…

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