Promising Antimalarial Drug Proves Ineffective at Saving Children’s Lives (News)
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Rectal artesunate (RAS), a promising antimalarial drug, proves ineffective at saving the lives of young children suffering from severe malaria, according to the results of a new study conducted by the
Jürg Utzinger Elected New President of the R. Geigy Foundation (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/juerg-utzinger-elected-new-president-of-the-r-geigy-foundation
A strategically important vessel for Swiss TPH "I am delighted to be leading the R. Geigy Foundation as President from January 2023," said Utzinger. "Over the past decades, the R. Geigy Foundation has
Eva Herzog Elected as New President of the Swiss TPH Board of Governors (News)
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The Board of Governors is the highest decision-making and supervisory body of Swiss TPH. The President is jointly elected by the governments of both Canton Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft. At their m
Extreme Temperatures Lead to More Cardiovascular Deaths (News)
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Extremely hot and cold temperatures both increase the risk of death among people with cardiovascular diseases such as ischemic heart disease (heart problems caused by narrowed heart arteries), stroke,
Reducing the Burden of Schistosomiasis for Young Children in Africa (News)
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Today, the Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated for review the application for its potential new child-friendly drug for the treatment of
Two SNSF Starting Grants for Researchers at Swiss TPH (News)
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Emma Hodcroft Hodcroft returns to the University of Basel after a two-year postdoctoral period in Bern and Geneva. Hodcroft is co-developer of the “Nextstrain” program, which allows virus outbreaks to
New Project to Improve the Care of Patients with Non-Communicable Diseases in Kosovo (News)
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Kosovo presents some of the worst health indicators in South Eastern Europe. Despite the fact that the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Kosovo is poorly documented, partly due to a not ye
Peter Hotez Visits Swiss TPH (News)
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On 7 and 8 November, Peter Hotez came to Swiss TPH to meet with faculty and students and give multiple lectures, including a public talk hosted by Swiss TPH entitled "Vaccines in the 21st Century: Wha
Current Recommended Treatment against Whipworm Shows Better Results than New Drug Combination (News)
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More than 1.5 billion people worldwide are infected with soil-transmitted helminths. The infections occur mainly in tropical and subtropical areas in sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, China and East A
Swiss TPH Designated as WHO Collaborating Centre for Verbal Autopsy (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/who-collaborating-centre-for-verbal-autopsy
Reliable and comparable data on the causes of mortality are cornerstones for building a solid evidence base for health policy, planning, monitoring and evaluation. Ideally, a physician reports the cau
