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Cypriot rejection raises pressure on franc

This content was published on Mar 19, 2013 Cyprus needs to raise €5.8 billion (CHF7 billion) in order to secure a €10 billion bailout from the European Union. The controversial bank savings tax, voted down by Cypriot parliament on Tuesday, was part of a larger bailout package intended to raise those funds. It’s now likely Cyprus and the EU will go back to…

Treating the root of the problem

This content was published on Mar 19, 2013 Using primarily herbal medicines, Ayurveda combines preventive health care, healing and a healthy life philosophy. Treatments can include long-term detoxification programmes as well as quicker pick-me-ups, like oil massages designed to rejuvenate. Established in 1967, Gujarat Ayurved University in Jamnagar, India, was the first institute devoted exclusively to Ayurvedic studies and research. Students from all…

Doing business in the developing world’s pharmacy

This content was published on Mar 19, 2013 Traffic noise floods the busy waiting room at a public hospital in southern Mumbai, where it’s first-come, first-served.

‘Medicine in India is definitely affordable’

This content was published on Mar 19, 2013 The patient flow at Suradeep Hospital in Mamallapuram is dictated partly by the bus schedule – in on the hour, out on the half hour – with pressure on the staff not to keep the bus waiting for too long. I hesitate in the busy waiting room until a white-haired man suggests I ask the…

Staying ahead of the clean technology curve

This content was published on Mar 18, 2013 “A building can be compared with the human body,” according to Felix Gassmann, chief executive of Basel-based energy management company Sauter. “It has sensors that pick up signals, circuits which transmit impulses and first and foremost a brain that organises the information. With this brain – or mini-computer – temperature, humidity, lighting and electricity can…

Defensive Vasella regrets tarnished image

This content was published on Mar 15, 2013 “Vasella talks!” shrieked the frontpage headline of Swiss tabloid Blick on Friday, showing a picture of the 59-year-old doctor and businessman, suited and with briefcase, mingling unnoticed among commuters on New York’s Madison Avenue. The next two pages were devoted to an exclusive interview with the man who stood down as chairman of the Basel-based…

The business of cancer research

This content was published on Mar 14, 2013 Market analysts at Connecticut-based IMS Health forecasts the market for cancer products will grow to $75 billion (CHF71 billion) by 2015, an increase of about 40 per cent from the $54 billion it generated in 2009. The ultimate goal for all actors in this profitable market is to find a cure for the disease, which…

Drug development’s road gets longer

This content was published on Mar 14, 2013 Health authorities have become more cautious and restrictive and require far more substantial documentation, says Stefan Frings, responsible for oncology at Roche’s partnering unit, which buys drug candidates for further development. Decades ago, a therapy would, for example, be approved for any type of solid tumour, based on relatively limited data. Nowadays, medicines are only…

Swiss rail accidents raise safety questions

This content was published on Mar 13, 2013 Some have also caused considerable disruption to passengers. On Wednesday Swiss Federal Railways reported an incident at Geneva Airport when just before 5 a.m. a regional train ran into an empty train standing at the station, causing slight damage to both. No one was injured but one in six trains between Geneva and Geneva airport…

At the scene of the crime

This content was published on Mar 13, 2013 From the first recorded autopsy, performed on the body of stabbing victim Julius Caesar in 44 BC, to fingerprinting, developed in the 1890s, to DNA analysis, developed in the 1980s, numerous tools have evolved to help determine the circumstances surrounding a crime. Was a death due to an accident, suicide or murder? Who was responsible…

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