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Our intern for 3 months!Elena Ojeda-Ruiz is a physician, with a Master in Public Health. She is currently finalizing her specialisation in Preventive Medicine and Public Health in Madrid and she is an active member of the Spanish and European associations of Public Health trainees, as well as of a research group focussing on cardiovascular diseases.

Claudia Burdet joined our team as the Cochrane Switzerland Coordinator on 1 April 2016.

Get Cochrane Switzerland’s Annual Report 2015 as a printable PDF version.

Five Swiss medical students attended the 23rd Cochrane Colloquium in Vienna last October.

On the occasion of the publication of the French version of the book "100 Medizin Mythen", to which Cochrane Austria has contributed, Professor Bernard Burnand, Dire

4. Februar 2016Seit Irland 2004 in allen öffentlichen Gebäuden das Rauchen verboten hat, sind viele europäische Nationen mit ähnlichen Gesetzen dem Tabakkonsum zu Leibe gerückt. Ein Hauptargument ist der Schutz der Nicht-Raucher.Der aktualisierte Cochrane Review ist eine umfassende Bilanz zur gesundheitlichen Auswirkung der nationalen Rauchverbote: 77 Studien aus 21 Ländern wurden eingeschlossen. Sie erlauben es nun auch, Aussagen zu den Folgen der Gesetze auf die Passiv-Raucher zu machen.

A newly signed national licence offers free access to the Cochrane Library to all residents in Switzerland, and the establishment of the licence has been made possible thanks to the initiative and financial contributions by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, complemented by the Federal Office of Public Health and several other institutions.

Health care is being improved constantly - what seemed adequate yesterday may be outdated today. For doctors in private practice it has not been easy to quickly access the most recent evidence from research. But also lay people want to use reliable health information. Are antibiotics beneficial for my child with acute middle ear infection? Does light therapy help prevent winter depression?

Health care is being improved constantly - what seemed adequate yesterday may be outdated today. For doctors in private practice it has not been easy to quickly access the most recent evidence from research. But also lay people want to use reliable health information. Are antibiotics beneficial for my child with acute middle ear infection? Does light therapy help prevent winter depression?