Aachen, Germany (ots) - In the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved Versatis®, a novel 5 % lidocaine medicated plaster, for the treatment of neuropathic pain associated with previous herpes zoster infection (post-herpetic neuralgia, PHN), developed by the German drug company Grünenthal. Following this national approval of Versatis® and its national launch on January, ...
- During a press conference in Geneva this morning, Martin Velasco, Pascal Mock MD and Prof. Patrick Aebischer, President of the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), presented a solution which opens promising new prospects in terms of assisted reproductive technology. - A major advantage of the ...
AC Immune, Ltd. enters into an Exclusive Global License Agreement and Research Collaboration with Genentech, Inc. for Development of Anti-beta-amyloid Antibodies for the Potential Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease and other human Diseases. Ecublens/Lausanne, Switzerland (ots) - AC Immune, Ltd., a Swiss Biotech Company developing innovative therapies against Alzheimer's Disease, today announced that it has entered into ...
Università della Svizzera italiana
Saturday 13th May 2006 from 10 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. Great Hall (Aula Magna) on the University Campus in Lugano Lugano (ots) - The Università della Svizzera Italiana is 10 years old! The Dies Academicus is an important opportunity to meet up and exchange information about the development of the USI within the context of our region and in its relations with ...
Zurich (ots) - Globalization is making itself felt not only worldwide but also at the regional level. The growing diversity of modern society is radically altering conditions on consumer markets. This issue was addressed at the first New Diversity Forum, which was held at the Zurich airport from March 13-14. The event, which was jointly sponsored by Lowe Switzerland ...
San Diego, CA (ots) - E-Wire - Joseph P. LaStella, P.E., President of Green Star Products, Inc. (OTC: GSPI) and Co-Managing Director of AMERICAN BIOFUELS, LLC, provides an editorial review of scientific evidence that Global Warming can abruptly cause an unexpected Ice Age in months not decades! The movie "The Day After Tomorrow" has caused much concern over the possibility of sudden catastrophic climate changes in ...
Indication: A picture will be sent by photopress on Keystone's satellit network Further pictures: www.newsaktuell.ch/f/galerie.htx?type=ops Istanbul/Bern/Heerbrugg (ots) - Almost one and a half thousand years since its construction in the center of ancient Constantinople, the Hagia Sophia has ...
Jacobson Resonance Enterprises
BOYNTON BEACH, FL (ots) - Jacobson Resonance Enterprises, Inc. (OTC BB: JRSE) announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration has granted an allowance to implement our state-of-the-art Jacobson Resonance Technology in the multi-billion dollar leisure/spa arena for relaxation purposes. ...
Volketswil (ots) - JUVENA of Switzerland is the first cosmetics company world-wide to integrate technology from the field of emergency medicine into skin care products. The basis for this technology is the research work of Professor Odile Damour*, head of the Laboratoire des Substituts Cutanés in Lyon (FR) and authority in the field of biological skin ...
Bonn (ots) - Ministers, mayors and meteorologists - these and other experts from a range of sectors are participating in the Second International Conference on Early Warning (EWC-II), to be held 16-18 October in Bonn. Almost 400 participants are registered for the Conference, which is expected to result in ...
Bonn, Germany (ots) - Second International Conference on Early Warning opened by German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Heads of UN Agencies and Programmes Bringing together international organizations, governments, scientists, mayors, and a variety of representatives from civil society, the Second International ...
IREF-Ischemia Research and Education Fou
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (ots) - Landmark study published in the New England Journal of Medicine identifies safe, inexpensive therapy to save lives and healthcare costs Led by Dr. Dennis T. Mangano and the Ischemia Research & Education Foundation, a massive, worldwide study involving 17 countries, 70 medical ...
International Students' Committee
St. Gallen (ots) - For the 24th time the Max Schmidheiny Foundation will award its Freedom Prize on Saturday, May 25, on the occasion of the 32nd ISC-Symposium, taking place at the University of St. Gallen, from May 23-25, 2002. Every year, the Max Schmidheiny Foundation promotes outstanding scientific, political and entrepreneurial initiatives and achievements that safeguard individual freedom and responsibility. ...
Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH
Ditzingen, Germany (ots) - The private foundation Berthold Leibinger Stiftung holds its Innovation Prize competition for applied laser technology once again. The topics in 2002 will be laser medicine and production technology. The invention of the laser 40 years ago initiated a development that has produced remarkable results in every sphere of daily life: today ...
Greifswald, Germany (ots) - Life science is the key technology of the 21st century, first innovative products and production processes revolutionise medicine, agriculture and releaf the environment. More than 120 representatives from science and industry from all the states of the Baltic sea region meet from ...