Storys zum Thema Politik

Actavis Inc.

'Youth in Europe' drug prevention programme sees youth drinking drop from 42% to 9% / Iceland and Actavis continue to support the fight against substance abuse

EUROSPINE, the Spine Society of Europe

EuroSpine: Press Conference Invitation / Spine Specialists meet at the international EuroSpine 2011 congress in Milan

Milan, Italy (ots) - The European congress for spine therapy, -surgery and orthopaedics will take place in Milan, Italy from 19-21 October and will attract numerous medical experts and industry specialists from around the globe. Thousands of participants will exchange their profound knowledge about latest research ...

Anti PowerPoint Partei

The first worldwide Anti-PowerPoint-Party founded (APPP)

Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - The APPP is an international movement wanting to lift the PowerPoint issue to the awareness of the world-population. The APPP sees itself as the advocate of approximately 250 million citizens worldwide, who, every month, are obliged to be present during boring presentations in companies, and who have not been represented in politics until ...

BKW Energie AG

BKW FMB Energie ltd/ Federal Council's decision on energy policy: Obstacle to CO2-free electricity supply

Bern (ots) - BKW FMB Energy Ltd (BKW) notes with concern the results of the Federal Council's energy policy review. The decision to opt for a phased but definitive withdrawal from nuclear energy with no replacements for the existing nuclear power plants will make it difficult in future to guarantee a reliable, ...

SBB CFF FFS

rail.ch: the online station

Bern (ots) - The SBB website presents itself in a complete redesign as ?the online station?. We took direction from the needs and wishes of various stakeholders: our passengers, market requirements and passengers with handicaps, along with the findings of ex-tensive usability tests. Based on all these factors, we implemented the following key points: ticket purchases within three clicks, a clearer navigation, ...

European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)

International community called upon to stop the runaway train of cancer in Africa

Lugano (ots) - To coincide with World Cancer Day 2011, on 4 February, the Africa Oxford Cancer Foundation (AfrOx) and the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) are working together to raise international awareness of the growing problem of cancer in Africa. AfrOx and ESMO are launching the 'Cancer in Africa: the Runaway Train' video, seeking to ...

Universität Zürich / University Zurich

University of Zurich: Denmark, Finland and Belgium have best democracies

Zurich (ots) - - Indication: PDF-File can be downloaded free of charge under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100020780/?langid=2 - A new democracy barometer from the University of Zurich and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) shows the development of the thirty best ...

DAKOMED - Dachverband Komplementärmedizin

Switzerland pays for complementary medicine as part of the compulsory health insurance

Bern (ots) - Anthroposophic medicine, classic homoeopathy, neural-therapy, phytotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine will be paid for via the compulsory health insurance in Switzerland from 2012. This decision was taken by the Health Minister Didier Burkhalter on 13 January 2011. They will be included for a limited period of six years. During this period ...

St. Gallen Oncology Conferences (SONK)

Invitation: 12th St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference, March 16-19, 2011

St. Gallen (ots) - This bi-annual conference will highlight meaningful advances concerning treatment of Early Breast Cancer (EBC). The conference will build up on earlier diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations and thereafter provide written guidelines for the international community. Breast cancer specialists from all over the world are awaiting these new ...

BKW Energie AG

Mühleberg nuclear power plant / Highest electricity output since startup

SWI swissinfo.ch

swissinfo.ch launches iPad application in 9 languages

von Mühlenen AG

World Cheese Awards 2010: Von Mühlenen wins award

Debiopharm International SA

Abionic wins the 'Prix Debiopharm Valais pour les Sciences de la Vie' for its innovative biomedical device for diagnostic testing

Lausanne (ots) - Debiopharm Group (Debiopharm), an independent specialist in global bio-pharmaceutical development in the field of oncology and regarding certain serious diseases, has announced the winner of the Prix Debiopharm Valais pourles Sciences de la Vie (Debiopharm Valais Life Sciences Prize). ...

GAIN - Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

AFRICA'S FOOD SECURITY PLANS / EU-Africa Summit: Nutrition must be put at Heart of Africa's Food Security Plans

Geneva (ots) - Three days before the EU-Africa Summit, Jay Naidoo, Chairman of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and former Chairperson of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), will hold a virtual press conference on how to achieve food security targets of the Millennium Development ...

BKW Energie AG

BKW FMB Energie AG and Axpo / Safety authorities attest to suitability of sites

Bern (ots) - An important milestone has been reached in the framework permit application process for replacement nuclear power plants in Beznau and Mühleberg. The Beznau and Mühleberg sites have been declared suitable for these replacement facilities. The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) has confirmed their suitability in its definitive ...

Pevion Biotech AG

Pevion´s breakthrough candida vaccine demonstrates safety and immunogenicity in Phase I clinical study

Ittigen, Berne (ots) - Pevion Biotech AG today announced positive preliminary results from a Phase I study of PEV7, the first vaccine against recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC). Also known as chronic recurrent thrush, RVVC is a highly debilitating condition, which affects an estimated 3-6% of women ...

WRS - World Radio Switzerland

World Radio Switzerland secures future and announces major changes to programme line-up

Geneva (ots) - Three years after its launch, World Radio Switzerland is expanding its programme line-up and coverage of Switzerland. WRS, the English-speaking radio station of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SSR SRG), is extremely pleased to announce that it has increased its programming offer through new partnerships with internationally renowned ...

WSSCC

Former Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, Professor Anna Tibaijuka, to Chair the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

Geneva (ots) - The Steering Committee of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) today elected Professor Anna Tibaijuka, Former Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, as its new Chair. WSSCC ( www.wsscc.org ) is an alliance of members from a range of sectors who are committed to improving the ...

SWI swissinfo.ch

The Gotthard Base Tunnel: the world's longest railway tunnel witnesses its final breakthrough in Switzerland on 15 October

Bern (ots) - The new Gotthard Base Tunnel - at 57 kilometres the longest railway tunnel in the world - will achieve breakthrough on October 15, 2010. swissinfo.ch is devoting a multimedia special dossier to this important stage in the new transalpine transit route, explaining the most important aspects of the ...

European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)

35th ESMO Congress: Milan, Italy (FieraMilanoCity), 8-12 October 2010 - Press Programm CURTAIN RAISER

Lugano (ots) - Press releases will be issued during the Congress, on a daily basis. Please contact the ESMO Press Office at media@esmo.org if you would like to receive the full text of the press releases/abstracts in advance, available as of Wednesday, 6 October 2010 R. Bastian, DE Surgical ...

Solianis Monitoring AG

Solianis Monitoring finalizes clinical trial for non-invasive conti¬nuous glucose monitoring in patients with diabetes

Zurich (ots) - Solianis Monitoring Ltd reaches another milestone testing their Multisensor Glucose Monitoring System for non-invasive continuous glucose monitoring in daily life The latest generation of Solianis' Multisensor Glucose Monitoring System with the final sensor configuration was tested in ...

International Press Institute (IPI)

Renowned Haitian Journalist Joseph Guyler Delva to Speak at IPI World Congress

Vienna (ots) - Delva To Talk about Plight of Haiti's Journalists, at Closing Ceremony in Bratislava The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced the inclusion of Joseph Guyler C. Delva, one of Haiti's most respected and renowned journalists, in its line-up of World Congress speakers. In a presentation titled, "After the Quake: Press Freedom and ...

von Mühlenen AG

Von Mühlenen's Nantwich Success Continues With "Le Gruyère Premier Cru" awarded "Best Swiss Cheese"

Düdingen (ots) - Von Mühlenen proves its consistency by winning Gold and then going on to be awarded "Best Swiss Cheese" for "Le Gruyère Premier Cru" at the International Cheese Awards Nantwich, Cheshire on July 27/28th 2010; this follows on from last year's success as Supreme Champion "Best Continental ...

Greenpeace

Greenpeace: Jail Term for Anti-whaling Activists?

Zurich/Jungfraujoch (ots) - In a public protest on Mt. Jungfraujoch, timed to coincide with Japan's Oceans Day, Greenpeace activists demanded a fair sentence trial and an acquittal today for Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, two non-violent whale protectors threatened with one year and six months' jail after exposing embezzlement inside Japan's whaling industry. Under the eyes of Japanese tourists on the "Top of ...

Jacobs Foundation

Auma Obama is set to become a new member of the Jacobs Foundation's Board of Trustees

Zürich (ots) - The Jacobs Foundation's Board of Trustees has appointed Dr. Auma Obama as a new member. Auma Obama works as a Global Technical Advisor for the aid organisation "CARE International" and - like the Jacobs Foundation - actively promotes educational and development opportunities for young people. The Jacobs Foundation, with its registered office in ...

SWI swissinfo.ch

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John Harlin III - Hiking, biking, climbing and kayaking around Switzerland's borders in three months

Interpharma

Swiss pharmaceutical industry sets new standards in the protection of laboratory animals

von Mühlenen AG

Gold Fever in the Emmental Valley / "Emmentaler Tradition" celebrates the best Emmental cheesemaker

Düdingen (ots) - This year, the best Emmental cheesemaker was elected for the very first time. The title of Best Cheesemaker 2009 went to "Emmentaler Tradition", produced by cheesemaker Urs Fankhauser from the Ilfis dairy near Langnau. On the 12th of June 2010, a big celebration was held to honour this ...

SWI swissinfo.ch

swissinfo.ch: World Heritage Sites in Switzerland

Bern (ots) - swissinfo.ch is presenting special multimedia reports on the country's growing and diverse list of Unesco World Heritage Sites. The special dossier, available online in Switzerland's national languages, is now also in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese. The reports invite visitors on a virtual journey through the centuries to discover Switzerland's cultural and natural treasures that ...

UNI Global Union

UNI Global Union: Bank workers demand their rights at demonstration in Frankfurt / "Fair Banking Advice? Fair Working Conditions? Now!"

Nyon (ots) - European bank workers will demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt this morning to call for a radical change in the sales practices of financial service providers. UNI Finance Global Union, German union ver.di, bank workers and representatives of ...