Storys aus Switzerland

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF)

Had a wrist fracture? Over 50? Get tested for osteoporosis / On World Osteoporosis Day the IOF warns that fragility fractures in adults should trigger testing for osteoporosis

Nyon, Switzerland (ots) - "A wrist fracture is a warning sign," says Professor John A. Kanis, president of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF). "We urge all adults aged 50 and over who have suffered a wrist or other fragility fracture, to get tested for osteoporosis." Osteoporosis is a chronic 'silent' ...

Helsinn Healthcare SA

Helsinn Grants Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA) Rights to Anamorelin, a First-in-Class Compound to Treat Cachexia-Anorexia Related to Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Lugano, Switzerland and Melbourne, Australia (ots) - Helsinn Healthcare SA and STA reinforce their Cancer Supportive Care Alliance in Australia and New Zealand with a Distribution and License Agreement for the innovative phase III ghrelin receptor agonist Melbourne biopharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics ...

Graubünden Ferien

Obermutten opens the International Museum of Friendship / With 44,000 Facebook fans, a Swiss mountain village has more than the capital city of Berne

Obermutten, Switzerland (ots) - Obermutten now has a museum - the Obermutten International Museum of Friendship (OIMOF). "Since we opened the OIMOF in our barn, we have received over 80 friendship gifts," beams mayor Martin Wyss. A year ago, the village in the Swiss canton of Graubünden started a Facebook page, ...

Helsinn Healthcare SA

Oral Palonosetron shows safe and effective control of nausea and vomiting induced by multiple cycles of chemotherapy

Lugano, Switzerland & Vienna, Austria (ots) - New data presented at the 2012 meeting of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) in Vienna show antiemetic efficacy maintained across the chemotherapy cycles and a positive safety profile The oral formulation of palonosetron, the second generation 5-HT3 receptor ...

Emil Frey AG

Hertz franchises Swiss Business to Emil Frey Group

Park Ridge, NJ/Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - The Hertz Corporation (NYSE:HTZ) the world's largest general use car rental brand, and Emil Frey Group have signed an agreement for Emil Frey Group to join Hertz's global franchising network and purchase the Hertz car rental business in Switzerland, representing a total of 30 locations. Mark P. Frissora, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for The Hertz Corporation, said: "Hertz ...

EffRx Pharmaceuticals SA

EffRx Names Lorenzo Bosisio Vice President, Head of Business Development and Marketing

Freienbach, Switzerland (ots) - EffRx Pharmaceuticals SA is proud to announce and welcome Lorenzo Bosisio, new Head of Business Development and Marketing. Lorenzo will be responsible for the outlicensing and marketing of EffRx's approved product Steovess®/BinostoTM outside of the USA and Canada as well as developing the business for EffRx's other pipeline products. ...

Bioforce AG

Bioforce AG: Largest Echinacea trial proves prevention of colds and flu

Roggwil, Switzerland (ots) - Colds and flu are the most frequent illnesses experienced by the Western world. They lead to tremendous costs to public health and the economy, being the leading cause of absences from work and school. This is especially the case during the autumn and winter months when almost everyone suffers colds or flu a few times. Immune resistance ...

TISSOT S.A.

Tissot, Official Timekeeper of the 17th Asian Games Incheon 2014

Albis Technologies AG

Albis Technologies proves Leadership in Multi-Vendor Interoperability

Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - Albis Technologies successfully participated in EANTC's public multi-vendor interoperability event and the showcase at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress (CEWC). Interoperability was demonstrated with the ULAF+ ACCEED solution in the fields of Business Access and Mobile Backhaul. Daniel Berz, Senior Technical Sales Manager of Albis ...

Helsinn Healthcare SA

Helsinn Grants to DARA Exclusive U.S. Commercial Rights to Gelclair®, an FDA-Cleared Oral Gel for the Treatment of Oral Mucositis

Lugano, Switzerland / Raleigh, N.C., USA (ots) - Gelclair® Strengthens DARA's Growing Portfolio of In-licensed Oncology and Oncology Supportive Care Products The Helsinn Group of Switzerland announced today that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with DARA BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: DARA) for U.S. ...

Basel Declaration Society

Young researcher from Greece is the winner of this year's "Basel Declaration Award for Education in Animal Research"

Museum der Kulturen Basel

New dialogue culture for the Museum der Kulturen Basel / A museum that asks questions

Jungfraubahn Holding AG

Europe's highest-altitude railway station celebrates its centenary

Albis Technologies AG

Albis Technologies Shortlisted with ACCEED For Best Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Product EMEA 2012

Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - Albis Technologies announces that their product ACCEED 1404 has been shortlisted in the category of Best Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Product EMEA 2012 for the Carrier Ethernet Award 2012 which is held at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Barcelona from September 17th to 20th this ...

Helsinn Healthcare SA

Helsinn partners with the European School of Oncology (ESO)

Lugano, Switzerland (ots) - Starting July 1st the Swiss Group has become Gold sponsor of the Sharing Progress in Cancer Care (SPCC) Programme Through its support to the Sharing Progress in Cancer Care (SPCC) Programme, Helsinn Group starts to actively collaborate with the European School of Oncology (ESO) in promoting education in oncology, with special attention to cancer supportive care. SPPC is a collaborative ...

Shire Pharmaceuticals Group Plc

Shire's VPRIV® (velaglucerase alfa for injection) Shows Significant Improvement in Gaucher-Related Bone Disease

Nyon, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - In a head-to-head trial between VPRIV and Cerezyme(R) (imiglucerase), only patients treated with VPRIV experienced statistically significant improvement in lumbar spine bone mineral density at 9 months Shire plc , the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, today presented ...

High-Tech Bridge SA

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab obtains "CVE-Compatible" status

Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - High-Tech Bridge ( www.htbridge.com ) is pleased to announce that Security Advisories by High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab ( https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/ ) achieved the final stage of MITRE's formal CVE Compatibility Process and are now officially "CVE-Compatible" ( http://cve.mitre.org/compatible/questionnaires/146.html ). CVE is ...

PSI - EPSU

Algerian Trade Unionists in Critical Condition as Hunger Strike Enters Fifth Week

Geneva, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Government Ignores Deteriorating Health of Federal Justice Workers In protest against repeated human and trade union rights violations, nine union members, five women and four men, began an unlimited hunger strike on 6 May in Algiers, Algeria. Despite urgent requests for meetings, and daily reports on the workers' rapidly ...

Shire Pharmaceuticals Group Plc

Phase 3 Study Shows Efficacy is Maintained With lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (LDX) in Children and Adolescents With ADHD After at Least 6 Months of Treatment

Nyon, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Significantly lower proportion of subjects experiencing treatment failure whilst receiving LDX in the randomised withdrawal period, compared to those subjects receiving placebo.[1] Today, at the EUNETHYDIS 2nd International ADHD Conference, Shire AG , the global specialty ...

Rhätische Bahn

Go hiking over the Swiss Alps in HD / The longest hiking film in the world

Chur, Switzerland (ots) - Now everyone can experience the most spectacular hike in Switzerland from their living rooms in HD quality. Hiking fans around the world can "wander" through the ten legs of the Albula/Bernina trail in real time in a 36-hour film at www.webwandern.ch . Hundreds of hotspots along the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) UNESCO World Heritage Site route ...

OISTE

OISTE.ORG Coordinates Thematic Workshop on Public Awareness and Digital Identity Awareness at the WSIS 2012 Forum

Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - The OISTE Foundation is participating in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum by coordinating a thematic workshop at this year's event. The WSIS Forum 2012 is a summit for discussing how to help harness the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Museum der Kulturen Basel, Switzerland: Suspended - On the Lightness of Stone / 26 April 2012 to 15 July 2012

Interros Holding Company

Further Swiss legal defeat for Deripaska and Rusal

Zurich, Switzerland/Moscow, Russia (ots) - The Swiss Federal Criminal Court has rejected in full the objection lodged by Oleg Deripaska and UC Rusal to the decision by the Federal Attorney General's Office not to investigate their allegations. The objection was lodged in response to the decision (and corresponding decree) by the Federal Attorney General's Office not to pursue the criminal complaint against Interros and ...

Bacula Systems SA

Bacula Systems Announces Bacula Enterprise Edition 6: Enterprise-class Solution Sets New Standards for Open Source Backup and Restore

Yverdon-Les-Bains, Switzerland (ots) - Bacula Enterprise Edition 6 ships with a new set of high-end plugins such as Delta, VMware, SAN Shared Storage and Microsoft Exchange / SQL Server; offers large data centers high-value, commercial open source alternative Bacula Systems, the world's leading provider of ...

Xeebel AG

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HeatMapz - Nightlife's biggest problem - solved

WISeKey SA

WISeKey brings its Anti-Counterfeiting NFC Technology to BaselWorld to lead the fight against Counterfeit Luxury Goods

Basel, Switzerland (ots) - WISeKey brings its anti-counterfeiting technology to BaselWorld to demonstrate to the Luxury Goods Market how its advancements with NFC will help prevent the distribution of counterfeit products. WISeKey's anti-counterfeiting technologies revolutionized the fine timepiece industry when ...

Shire Pharmaceuticals Group Plc

More Choice for CKD Patients in Europe as FOSRENOL® is Approved in a New Oral Powder Formulation

Nyon, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Shire plc , the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced it has received approval through the European Decentralised Procedure for an oral powder formulation of FOSRENOL (lanthanum carbonate). FOSRENOL is a non-calcium, non-resin phosphate binder indicated as a phosphate binding agent for use in the control of ...

Hitachi Medical Systems Europe Holding AG

ECR 2012: Hitachi Medical Systems Europe Holding AG to present its new, combined Hitachi Aloka ultrasound portfolio and a new era in MR imaging

Zug, Switzerland (ots) - - - First ECR presentation of the combined Hitachi and Aloka ultrasound portfolio with its many highlights - New upgrades for ProSound F75 - New ergonomic lightweight ultrasound system F37 - Image fusion with Hitachi Real-time Virtual Sonography - A new era in MR imaging: the Echelon Oval ...

IMD

Good governance rewarded by markets, says IMD study

Lausanne, Switzerland (ots) - New research has uncovered consistent evidence of how good corporate governance is recognized and rewarded by the markets. A commonly-held assumption is that costs of voluntarily adopting and implementing better governance practices outweigh benefits to a company. But a study by IMD business school, suggests market prices positively reflect such a move. The finding is of particular ...

WISeKey SA

WISeKey Upgrades WISeID, the Swiss Knife of Digital Safety, with Secure Identities and Encrypted Facebook Messaging

Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - WISeKey has upgraded and redesigned its WISeID Password and Personal Data Protector application, the Swiss Knife of digital safety. WISeID version 3S continues to secure Personal Identifiable Information (PII), data which contains unique identity and location details of an individual. ...