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Zurich finds triplets have fewer behavioural problems

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:41:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – If you’re finding your teenager a handful and can’t imagine having three of them consider this: triplets are just as healthy as “singletons” and have fewer behavioural problems and are less likely to suffer mood swings. The University of Zurich Children’s Hospital studied 19 sets of triplets, mean age 14.5 years, to [...]

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World Health Assembly meets in Geneva

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:26:10 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Dr Margaret Chan up for election to head WHO for second term GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The World Health Organization’s 192 members are meeting for five days in Geneva starting Monday 21 May. The assembly will elect a director general and current head Dr Margaret Chan, with solid backing from the board, looks set for re-election. [...]

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Geneva hospital gets its own Hollywood Boulevard

Paula Dupraz — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:03:49 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – To celebrate World Hand Hand Hygiene Day, the Geneva University Hospital (HUG) is finding inspiration from Hollywood to create its own “hand hygiene boulevard” Monday 7 May. The HUG says its goal is to alert the public, patients and its own staff to the dangers of infections contracted at hospital and the [...]

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Swiss debate neutrality of repatriating US wounded soldiers (update)

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:17:10 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The issue of Swiss neutrality is raising its head in parliament with the confirmation by Rega that it has carried out repatriation flights of wounded US soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq, reports RTS public broadcasting. Rega, which provides emergency medical repatriation flights for a number of clients, notably insurance companies, confirmed the [...]

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Two consumer recalls: toy trains and sweets

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:07:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Two Swiss companies are recalling consumer products: Ikea, toy trains and Migros, sugar-free sweets. Ikea trains, electric shock risk Ikea is voluntarily recalling IKEA 365+ SÄNDA 70 and 114 cm electric trains sold between September 2011 and March 2012. Owners of the trains should check if their products carry the code number [...]

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Antiobiotics affected by water environment say EPFL researchers

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:50:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Findings could help development of new drugs for epilepsy, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – “Water isn’t just a neutral environment; it can also interact with the molecules and change their structure” EPFL researchers at the Laboratory of Molecular Physical Chemistry note in a statement about new findings that could lead to progress in [...]

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Mental health cases stable in terms of type and number in 2011

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:38:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The extent of mental illness in Switzerland have remained relatively stable for the past 10 years, a new report by the Federal Health Office shows. The cost in economic terms is CHF11 billion a year, with a large part of this due to indirect costs such as absenteeism and early retirement. The [...]

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Swiss Mother’s day is coming up: give her anti-stress dark chocolate

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:36:53 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – We’ve all suspected it and now Nestlé researchers tell us it is true: a nibble of dark chocolate a day reduces our stress level. A research team that looked at the biochemical basis for what many of us like to consider comfort food found “strong evidence that a daily consumption of 40 [...]

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Swiss assisted suicides: data shows growing number in first decade

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:36:26 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The number of assisted suicides in Switzerland of people who are permanent residents in the country, appeared to rise during the first decade in which statistics were kept, 1998-2009. Three hundred people committed assisted suicide, which is legal, in 2009, giving a ratio of 4.8 out of 1,000 deaths. International comparisons are [...]

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Lake Geneva bacteria-resistant waste water “not alarming” but treatment urged

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:07:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Hospital waste water should be treated separately LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A startling discovery made by researchers at Vidy, in Lausanne, has led to recommendations that waste water dumped into Lake Geneva be given complementary treatments and that waste water from hospitals be treated separately. The research team from Eawag, the Swiss aquatic research institute in [...]

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