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Public Talk of Prof. Gillet Cancelled

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Due to personal reasons Prof. Grant Gillet (NZ) cancelled his trip to Europe and hence his talk "Dilemmas in life threatening neurological disease".

Exposure to tobacco smoke before and after a partial smoking ban in prison: indoors air quality measures

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:14:00 +0200

Full reference: Ritter C, Huynh CK, Etter JF, Elger BS.: Exposure to tobacco smoke before and after a partial smoking ban in prison: indoors air quality measures. Tob Control. 2011 Aug 11. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21836161

International Portability of Health-Care Coverage: Concepts and Experience

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:17:00 +0200

Full reference: Werding, M. & McLennan, S. (2011). International Portability of Health-Care Coverage: Concepts and Experience. The World Bank: Social Protection & Labor. SP Discussion Paper No. 1115.

Health perception and health behaviors of Elder Tibetans Living in India and Switzerland

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:58:00 +0200

Wangmo, T. (2011). Health perception and health behaviors of Elder Tibetans Living in India and Switzerland. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. Online First: DOI 10.1007/s10823-011-9151-0

Join our Seminar with Experts of Bioethics!

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Bioethics research: contemporary debates
Springsemester 2012, VV-Nr. 30169-01
Monday, 12.15-14.00 Universitätsspital, Spitalstrasse, Hörsaal 2, Klinikum 1
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PhD-Job Offer: MD-PhD student (100%) in (bio)medical ethics

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

We encourage in particular advanced medical students or young medical doctors who share our dedication to study challenging ethical problems related to medicine and the life sciences. We offer several PhD posts for 3 years, among those research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation. If you have good/excellent academic grades/evaluations (BA or MA in medicine, or MD) we look forward to your application. Get the detailed pHD-job description here.

Direct-to-consumer pharmacogenomic testing

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:13:00 +0100

Althoug PGx testing may very well one day fulfill its promise of preventing serious consequences of adverse drug reactions as well as avoiding the costs of giving certain drugs to patients who are probably nonresponders, we caution against the premature translation of such tests directly to the public.

Prison medicine, public health policy and ethics: the Geneva experience.

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:16:00 +0100

Elger BS. Prison medicine, public health policy and ethics: the Geneva experience. Swiss Med Wkly. 2011 Nov 7;141:w13273. doi: 10.4414/smw.2011.13273. PMID: 22057648

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Watchdog or Guard dog – Appointing and HDC

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:29:00 +0100

McLennan, S. (2011). Watchdog or Guard dog – Appointing and HDC. New Zealand Doctor Newspaper. October 2011, 21.

Regulating Open Disclosure: A German Perspective

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:21:00 +0100

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