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Thousands request compensation for Lothar

This content was published on Sep 17, 2000 According to Hanspeter Waldburger, the director of the special fund created to compensate those worst hit by the December 26 storm 26, the requests cover some 15,000 hectares of forests. Central and western Switzerland suffered the most damages. Individual cases are to be evaluated by local forestry divisions, which will subsequently submit their reports to…

The week in Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 16, 2000 The plan was put forward in the United States on Monday, more than two years after the accord was reached. It proposes assigning $800 million to cover the claims of Holocaust victims or their heirs who failed to recover assets from dormant Swiss bank accounts. The remainder of the funds will go to people forced…

New unit probes causes of premature births

This content was published on Sep 15, 2000 Around seven per cent of all babies born in Switzerland are delivered pre-term, that is before the 37th week of pregnancy. This figure is around 10 per cent in Geneva, which has a special premature baby unit. But these figures are only estimates because many private hospitals are loath to release figures for fear of…

Government-sponsored heroin programme: last resort for worst cases

This content was published on Sep 15, 2000 The number of places open to addicts who can enter the federal government’s heroin prescription programme has risen to 1,200. The figure represents an increase of 400 from two years ago when the programme was still considered a scientific experiment. The figure emerged from the annual report of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health…

Swiss divers reach new heights

This content was published on Sep 14, 2000 The seven men and women, all members of the ADN diving club in Geneva, set a first record on June 7, when they entered the Gyazumbha II Lake, lying at an altitude of 5,170 metres in the Nepalese Himalayas. Two days later, two members of the team, Dominique Neuenschwander and Michel-Albert Chamot, set a new…

Particle collider granted stay of execution in Geneva

This content was published on Sep 14, 2000 Researchers want to keep looking for definite proof that the “Higgs Boson” exists. They were heartened recently by observations of three collisions of subatomic particles, in which they believe they saw the shadow of the Higgs Boson. However, the observations are not strong enough proof that the particle exists. The LEP was due to be…

Novartis reportedly hit by two new lawsuits

This content was published on Sep 14, 2000 The Wall Street journal says the cases in California and New Jersey accuse Novartis of conspiring with the American Psychiatric Association to “create” a disease called attention-deficit hyper-activity disorder. Ritalin is prescribed to treat the condition. The lawsuits are seeking class-action status for billions of dollars in damages on behalf of consumers. They are likely…

Swiss astronomer among winners of Balzan Prize

This content was published on Sep 12, 2000 The Milan-based foundation announced on Tuesday that Mayor will be honoured with a SFr500,000 award for Instrumentation and Techniques in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Mayor was praised by the Balzan Foundation for “his achievements in making it possible to detect the first planet around a star other than the Sun”. Other researchers rewarded for their work…

Stress costs Swiss economy billions every year

This content was published on Sep 12, 2000 The survey, published by the economics ministry on Tuesday, said the damage caused by stress could go up to at least SFr8 billion if accidents and work-related illness are included. The results are based on interviews of 150 employees in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Alain Kiener, head of the occupational health department at the…

Geneva scientists close to finding particle after 40 years of research

This content was published on Sep 12, 2000 Five measurements of particles which could be the Higgs-Boson have been made in the last two months in Geneva, but they do not go far enough to amount to scientific evidence of its existence. Patrick Janot, who is responsible for scientific co-ordination on the project, said the probability that the measurements represent some form of…

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