Freeze on new doctor’s offices in Switzerland maintained
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – The freeze on new offices for doctors will be maintained following a vote by the lower house of Parliament Wednesday, which agreed to continue it...
View ArticleDoctors in Geneva promote non-smoking cafes
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (Tribune de Geneve, Fre) – The Geneva medical doctors association, unhappy with the federal court ruling that struck down a Geneva no-smoking law, has decided to...
View ArticleDoctor from Iraq found guilty of UK bomb plots
GenevaLunch News Bilal Abdulla, a medical doctor from Iraq who has worked in the UK, was found guilty Tuesday of plotting bomb attacks in Glasgow and London in 2007. Another doctor who has been...
View ArticleDoctors in Vaud and Geneva strike over lab pay
GenevaLunch News Lake Geneva region, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – General practitioners in cantons Vaud and Geneva have closed their offices Tuesday 24 March in protest against new conditions under...
View ArticleSwiss doctors, labs, given new rules for A(H1N1) pandemic
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss government has adopted new regulations for fighting the A(H1N1) swine flu pandemic, effective Wednesday 1 July, that put a greater burden on...
View ArticleSwiss health spending outstripped only by US, France
GenevaLunch News Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland spent CHF58.5 billion on health care in 2008, or CHF632 per person, figures published 9 November by the federal government show....
View ArticlePregnant women in peril from Pakistan’s floods
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The massive flooding that has affected large areas of Pakistan for months is straining humanitarian agencies budgets, stretched thin by falling donor...
View ArticleDoctors: Where to find one in your area
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Many of us like to have recommendations for doctors, but sometimes we simply need to know how to find an eye doctor or a throat specialist. There are plenty of...
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