Remote ultrasounds for diagnoses soon available
GenevaLunch News LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A French-Swiss research team in Bescancon, France and Lausanne and two start-ups in the Lake Geneva region will soon be putting on the market a system for...
View ArticleChuv hospitals hit by new internal theft
GenevaLunch News LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Chuv university hospitals, which have greatly tightened their financial auditing systems since a neurologist stole nearly CHF5 million to feed his passion...
View ArticleValais has second A9 deadly accident this week
GenevaLunch News Accident just 24km from Sion, where injured children, families were being prepared to fly to Belgium GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It has been a particularly deadly week on Swiss roads, and...
View ArticleSierre bus crash: three girls at Chuv out of danger
GenevaLunch News LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The three girls at the Chuv university hospitals in Lausanne who have been in critical condition since the bus crash in Sierre a week ago are now out of danger,...
View ArticleLake Geneva bacteria-resistant waste water “not alarming” but treatment urged
GenevaLunch News 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...
View ArticleSierre bus crash: Rega flies last 3 children home to Belgium
GenevaLunch News ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Rega, the Swiss air emergency service, flew three girls home to Belgium today from the Chuv University hospitals in Lausanne, where they were in critical...
View ArticleYasser Arafat may have been poisoned, Lausanne lab tests show
GenevaLunch News LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Tests run by the Institute of Radiation Physics at the University Hospitals (CHUV) in Lausanne on personal items belonging to deceased Palestinian leader Yasser...
View ArticleGeneva, Lausanne hospital teams research to change world IC care
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Better nutrition for the most at-risk patients needing tube-feeding (EN, or enteral nutrition) in intensive care in hospitals plays a key role in avoiding what...
View ArticleMJF boss Claude Nobs hospitalized, prognosis awaited
GenevaLunch News MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND – The Foundation Board of the Montreux Jazz Festival says founder Claude Nobs is currently hospitalized and in grave condition. According to a press release sent...
View ArticleTwo university hospitals remove bacteria-tainted soaps
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Hug and Chuv university hospitals in Geneva and Lausanne said Monday afternoon they immediately removed potentially bacteria-tainted soap throughout their...
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