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Interlaken hosts health experts with the mission to offer fairer global health care

This content was published on May 11, 2000 “Clearly the poorer countries have the greatest burden,” says Orvill Adams, the director of the World Health Organisation’s health service delivery body. In poverty-stricken countries, more than one in five children die in their first year. This compares unfavorably with just one in 200 children in the West. Poverty then certainly is an issue, but…

Chromosome 21 research brings human genome code a step closer

This content was published on May 8, 2000 The researchers discovered over 33 million nucleotides, which are like the letters of the genetic alphabet, and an estimated 226 genes. The research, led by German and Japanese geneticists, started in 1995, and is part of the Human Genome Project. The Swiss team is headed by Professor Stylianos Antonarakis, of the Division of Genetics of…

Swiss gloomy about prospects for 21st century

This content was published on May 5, 2000 The survey, carried out by the research institute, DemoScope, found optimists to be in the minority. Only 37 per cent said they did not expect a major disaster (such as an atomic war, environmental catastrophe or a collision with a meteorite). The remaining 21 per cent gave no opinion. Similarly on the future of Switzerland,…

Schindler launches rope innovation

This content was published on May 4, 2000 SchindlerAramid is manufactured from the plastic material bearing the same name – aramid – which has been used in the space and aircraft industries. “I think the development of this aramid rope and the result we achieved is really a quantum leap in the industry, and I am sure that it will set new standards,”…

Roche to promote university research

This content was published on May 4, 2000 The fund, which will provide start-up financing of SFr2.5 million, spread over a period of five years, will make it easier for the Department of Biology to recruit top researchers to fill the five assistant professorships in its pool. The research fund will help the ETH provide highly qualified researchers with the infrastructure they need…

Budget cuts threaten Swiss lead in sciences, warns top academic

This content was published on May 4, 2000 Professor Olaf Kübler says budgetary restraints imposed by the government are threatening the future of Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology and other research centres across the country. “When you look at the end of the Clinton administration you find that research in the US is getting double digit percentage increases,” says Professor Kübler. “Here at…

Swiss contribution to car industry goes on show

This content was published on May 2, 2000 The exhibition looks at the work of the coach-building yards which were such an important industry in Switzerland in the 1930s and 1940s. Their names – Beugler, Gangloff, Worblaufen, Reinbold and Christe – are well known to aficionados of vintage cars. But why did they achieve such fame? “From the very start of the automobile…

Government gives green light to killing of protected predator

This content was published on May 2, 2000 The Federal Environment Agency has given the go-ahead to kill a wolf in canton Valais, following a request from the cantonal authorities. The species is protected under Swiss law, but an exception has been made because this wolf has been preying on livestock. The Federal Environment Agency approved a request by canton Valais to kill…

Most Swiss people want a professional army

This content was published on Apr 30, 2000 A majority of Swiss people would like to see the army scaled down to a professional service. According to a “SonntagsBlick” newspaper survey, the Swiss are calling for a leaner and cheaper military than the defence minister, Adolf Ogi, has in mind. Overall, 53 per cent of Swiss people want to see the professionalisation of…

Swiss Nobel prize winner to help launch dialogue on genetically modified products

This content was published on Apr 28, 2000 The Swiss bioengineering scientist, Rolf Zinkernagel (pictured), has been chosen to enter a European Commission panel to spearhead an information campaign on genetically modified (GM) organisms. The 12-member group was set up because of an alarming level of ignorance towards GM science, reported in a European survey. The survey, carried out last December, found that…

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