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The risks of overmedicating the elderly

Older people in Switzerland take a lot of pills, which can affect their health. It's not always clear how many different medicines a patient is taking, or how those medicines interact with each other (RTS/swissinfo.ch)

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A prescription written in your genes

This content was published on Switzerland’s reputation as a research hotbed makes it a prime location for pioneering genetics-based medical technologies. We show how the multi-billion franc Swiss pharma industry is capitalising on these advances.

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Charting new brain territories

This content was published on Expectations are high about the impact of the Human Brain Project, an ambitious €1 billion (CHF1.2 billion) programme funded by the European Union exploring new ways of mapping the human brain and led by a team at the EPFL. Observers say western Switzerland’s so-called ‘Health Valley’ stretching from canton Valais via Lausanne to Geneva should…

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