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30.11.2021
Promising Drug Combination Treatment Against Parasitic Worm Infections
In a Phase III clinical trial, researchers at Swiss TPH have successfully gathered encouraging data to demonstrate higher efficacy of co-administration of ivermectin-albendazole in... More...
16.11.2021
Clinical Trials Completed for a New Drug to Treat Parasitic Worm Infections in Infants
The Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium completed its pivotal clinical Phase III trial of arpraziquantel – a potential new treatment option for the estimated 50 million... More...
09.11.2021
A Decline in Air Pollution Levels in Europe Still Fall Short of WHO Guidelines, According to New Study
A new study by Swiss TPH used robust spatio-temporal methodology to show the reduction in air pollution across Europe from 2006-2019 and found that while exposure rates have... More...
20.10.2021
TB-PRACTECAL: Clinical Trial Yields Promising Results for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment
TB-PRACTECAL, a clinical trial led by Médecins Sans Frontières with partners including Swiss TPH, has found that a new all-oral treatment regimen for rifampicin-resistant... More...
14.10.2021
Vom Feld zur Familie: Neue Schweizer Partnerschaft will Ernährung in Städten verbessern
Gemeinsam haben das Schweizerische Tropen- und Public Health-Institut (Swiss TPH), Sight and Life, die ETH Zürich und die Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture das... More...
07.10.2021
First Malaria Vaccine Recommended for Children by the WHO
Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended the widespread use of the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01, debuting a tool that could save the lives of tens of thousands of... More...
22.09.2021
Neue Leitlinien der WHO für Luftqualität sollen Millionen von Menschen vor Luftverschmutzung schützen
Heute hat die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) ihre neuen globalen Luftqualitätsleitlinien vorgestellt, die den Schutz der Gesundheit der Bevölkerung durch die Reduzierung der... More...
20.09.2021
Students Return to Swiss TPH
This week, universities across Switzerland resumed in-person, hybrid and online courses. After nearly 80 years of educating talent at Socinstrasse in Basel, students return to the... More...
17.09.2021
Schlüsselübergabe für Neubau des Swiss TPH
Heute Freitag, 17. September 2021, erfolgte die Schlüsselübergabe für den Neubau des Schweizerischen Tropen- und Public Health-Instituts (Swiss TPH) im BaseLink-Areal in Allschwil.... More...