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01. Nov 2023

SFCNS Swiss Brain Health Plan, Kick-off Stakeholder Meeting | 22.11.23, Zurich

The SFCNS Swiss Brain Health Plan Kick-off Meeting takes place on Wednesday, 22.11.2023 from 13:00-18:00 at the Kunsthaus Zurich.

11. Oct 2023

Herbstversammlung der SGORL | 16.-17.11.2023, Interlaken

Die Herbstversammlung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie, Hals- und Gesichtschirurgie (SGORL) findet vom 16.-17.11.2023 in Interlaken statt. Die Anmeldung ist ab sofort geöffnet.

28. Apr 2022

Stop by!

In our new "Stop by" section, we regularly introduce you to interesting companies from Basel and the region.

11. Apr 2022

World Parkinson's Day | 11 April 2022

More than 15 000 people in Switzerland suffer from Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that causes increasing disability. Parkinson's disease causes motor and non-motor symptoms.

01. Apr 2022

Organ transplantation: presumed or explicit consent?

The revised Transplantation Act will be put to the vote in mid-May. In order to support the opinion-forming process, the SAMS is publishing a fact sheet. It provides ethical, medical and legal information on transplantation medicine and on the two models of the presumed or explicit consent.

Click here to download the fact sheet.

25. Mar 2022

PD Dr. med P.C. Baumann as guest at IMK Ltd.

As a founding member of the Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SGI) and former president of the SGI, PD Dr. med Peter Carl Baumann is an important witness of the times.

16. Mar 2022

Franziska von Arx nominated for this year's Viktor

Franziska von Arx is nominated for this year's Viktor, the Swiss Health Care Award, in the category ".03 Top Medical Performance". As President of the Swiss Society for Intensive Care Medicine, she represents the excellent work of the intensive care staff during the coronavirus pandemic.

28. Feb 2022

International Rare Disease Day | 28.02.2022

Rare diseases are only rare when taken in isolation; together there are very many of them.

25. Feb 2022

Statement of the EAN President on the situation in Ukraine

At this difficult time, our sympathy is with all those affected. We hope and plead for a speedy and peaceful resolution of this conflict so that as many lives as possible can be saved.

EAN is committed to supporting the neurological workers affected by the current situation.

For more information, click here.

01. Feb 2022

Stabilisation in organ donations and transplants

After the pandemic-related slump in organ donations and transplants in the previous year, the numbers stabilised again at the pre-pandemic level in 2021.

21. Jan 2022

Booster vaccination as the best possible protection

For the best possible protection, especially against severe COVID-19 disease involving hospitalisation, a booster vaccination with an mRNA vaccine from Moderna or Pfizer/BioNTech is recommended from 4 months after full vaccination (initial immunisation).

01. Dec 2021

“Working for IMK Ltd. is never boring”

Sandra Caduff has been working for IMK Ltd. since 2013. Initially employed as an assistant, today she is mother to one daughter and Lead Office Management of the company’s second-largest department.