21+ hour, 3+ min ago   (682+ words) Chocolate can be many things: comfort food, a little treat, or a pick-me-up. There are a number of claims surrounding this popular treat. Is there any truth to them? Chocolate makes you happy, but it’s also said to cause pimples,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (275+ words) More than 1,000 cases of West Nile virus infection have been reported in Europe since the start of the season. As of Thursday, a total of 1,086 cases had been recorded in seven European countries, all of which involved people who had…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (346+ words) The skin must heal, and mobility must be relearned. For burn victims, the road back to everyday life is a long one. Eight months after the devastating fire in Crans-Montana, ten injured people are still undergoing rehabilitation at Suva. Experts…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (187+ words) The heat has taken its toll in Switzerland. Here is a parched soccer field in the canton of Fribourg. At least 35,000 more people have died in Europe this summer. The situation is particularly dire in Germany, France, and Spain. Definitive…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (197+ words) A 35-year-old man from Milan died early Sunday morning, presumably from carbon monoxide poisoning, at an Italian mountain hut near the Swiss border. Five other people were injured. The accident occurred on Alpe Devero near the Binntal valley in Valais…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (374+ words) Two employees at Frankfurt Airport have already died as a result of malaria. The first death occurred in early July, according to the Frankfurt Public Health Department. However, the cause of death was not determined until after the patient’s death....

3+ week, 8+ min ago   (265+ words) After a relatively mild summer so far, it's now getting really hot in Greece. The country is experiencing its first heat wave of the summer. Temperatures of up to 40 degrees are expected for at least a week. Especially in urban…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (209+ words) bluewin.ch Hearing with AI: Sonova is Focusing on the Next Generation The hearing aid company Sonova is launching new AI-powered hearing aids. These are designed to better filter out speech from background noise, even in loud and dynamic situations....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (351+ words) bluewin.ch Over 16,000 vaccine doses delivered to the Democratic Republic of the Congo A shipment of 16,250 doses of the Ervebo vaccine arrived early Saturday morning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country severely affected by Ebola. A total…...