Swiss voters reject shift to state-run health insurance
© AFP/File Fabrice Coffrini Campaign posters promoting a single public health insurance system are seen on September 21, 2014 in Geneva Geneva (AFP) – Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a plan to ditch the country’s all-private health insurance system and create a state-run scheme, exit polls showed. S ...
Lufthansa may rent and lease back for no-frills plan
Weekly Der Spiegel said on Sunday that Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr was considering renting out the A340s earmarked for long-haul low-cost services to Switzerland-based PrivateAir and leasing them back with Swiss pilots who are not subject to ...
Swiss voters reject shift to state-run health insurance
“Over the past 20 years in Switzerland, health costs have grown 80 per cent and insurance premiums 125 per cent,” ophthalmologist Michel Matter told AFP. “This is not possible anymore. It has to change,” said Matter, who heads the Geneva Physicians ...
Roche’s breast cancer drug ‘unprecedented’ in extending lives
Headquarters of Roche AG in Basel, Switzerland. Both Herceptin and Perjeta are antibodies designed to block the function of HER2, a protein produced by a breast cancer-linked gene. Photo: Bloomberg Madrid: A new breast cancer drug from Roche has shown ...
Nishikori triumphs in Malaysia
The men’s draw at Tokyo’s Ariake Tennis Forest Park includes World No. 4 Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland and No. 6 Milos Raonic of Canada, both of whom Nishikori defeated at Flushing Meadows en route to the U.S. Open final. Nishikori, who won the ...
Motorcycling-Motorcycling Grand Prix moto2 standings
Esteve Rabat (Spain) Kalex 278 2. Mika Kallio (Finland) Kalex 245 3. Maverick Vinales (Spain) Kalex 204 4. Dominique Aegerter (Switzerland) Suter 143 5. Thomas Luethi (Switzerland) Suter 116 6. Johann Zarco (France) Caterham Suter 104 7. Simone Corsi ...
