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Switzerland sees fewer weekend births as planned deliveries rise

The overall proportion of births by caesarean section has been gradually increasing since 2019, reaching 34% in 2023.

This content was published on May 16, 2025 In Swiss hospitals in 2023, 16% of babies were born on Fridays, compared to just 11% on Sundays.

Those responsible are convinced that the promotion of gender medicine brings medical benefits.

Swiss Abroad

University of Zurich’s first gender medicine professor sparks interest

This content was published on May 15, 2025 The new academic role has faced some hurdles in its first year, but overall the university and the professor herself are happy with progress.

Payment platform RaiseNow under fire for rejecting Swiss People’s Party

Swiss Abroad

RaiseNow fundraising platform under fire for rejecting Swiss People’s Party

This content was published on May 14, 2025 Last year's decision by RaiseNow, a Swiss online fundraising and payment platform, to refuse to offer payment solutions to the right-wing Swiss People’s Party continue to stir controversy.

Swiss Abroad

St Gallen weighs playground smoking ban to protect children

This content was published on May 13, 2025 The city of Chur in southeastern Switzerland has led the way in smoke-free playgrounds; now a similar initiative is gaining ground in St Gallen in the east of the country.

Transmitters are installed on the east ridge of the Jungfraujoch to ensure that the signal makes it across the Alps. Power is supplied via a long cable that runs to the Jungfrau Railways station

Swiss Abroad

How the Jungfraujoch helped launch the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956

This content was published on May 9, 2025 The idea for the first Eurovision Song Contest came from a Swiss director. But the contest was originally a technical test.

Exorcists generally intervene only afterwards or together with medicine, psychiatry, psychology.

Swiss Abroad

Lugano appoints new exorcist amid rising demand

This content was published on May 8, 2025 Medieval tradition or modern need? Between faith and occultism, the role of an exorcist is reborn in a contemporary context.

Swiss Abroad

The tragic story of a Swiss farmer who perished on the Titanic

This content was published on May 7, 2025 One of the Titanic victims was a farmer from Uster. An exhibition in Germany now tells his tragic story.

Vegan sausages at a supermarket in Switzerland.

Food safety

Swiss court bans animal names for vegan meat substitutes

This content was published on May 5, 2025 Plant-based meat alternatives must no longer use names directly referencing animals, such as 'vegan chicken' or 'vegan pork'.

Swiss Abroad

Switzerland’s super-rich: essential contributors or a social threat?

This content was published on May 2, 2025 Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. However, its wealth is distributed very unevenly: the richest 1% own 45% of total assets.

A topic for discussion: Late lunch for the Glarus cantonal assembly?

Swiss Abroad

Open-air assembly in Glarus: the most important items on the agenda

This content was published on Apr 23, 2025 On the first Sunday in May, the canton of Glarus meets for its traditional open-air assembly, the Landsgemeinde.

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