| 2010-02-12 | Invitation Public Defence Elisabeth Kurth |
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| The Institute of Nursing Science and Elisabeth Kurth invite to the public defence of the dissertation ‘Postnatal Infant Crying & Maternal Tiredness: Examining their evolution and interaction in the first 12 weeks postpartum”. The dissertation was conducted under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Zemp Stutz. |
| 2010-01-20 | Documentation center ELMAR: new report, January 2010 |
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| A new report on low-frequency magnetic fields and cancer has been released by the documentation center ELMAR on behalf of the Federal Office of the Environment. |
| 2010-01-20 | LUDOK newsletter december 2009 |
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| 2010-01-20 | LUDOK Newsletter Oktober 2009 |
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| Traffic problems: risk for venous thromboses, risk through platinum, effect of speed limits on highway - new publications in LUDOK (in German only). |
| 2009-11-03 | Antrittsvorlesung Prof. Nino Kuenzli und Arno Schmidt-Trucksaess 10. Dez. 2009, 11:10h |
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| 2009-11-02 | Environmental Health Here and There: 14th Annual STI Symposium |
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| To commemorate the merger of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) with the Swiss Tropical Institute (STI), the 14th STI Symposium is built around the theme of “Environmental health: here and there”. A diverse set of case studies will be featured, both from industrialized countries and developing world settings. This thematic focus reflects the substantial body of research, teaching and training of the merged STI/ISPM centred on environmental health issues worldwide. The symposium will take place 10-11 December 2009 at the Bildungszentrum 21, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland. Registration is free, but space is limited so please register online. More info is available at www.sti.ch. |
| 2009-10-05 | ELMAR Newsletter September 2009 |
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| High- and low-frequency fields in the environment: recent studies with measurements from Switzerland, France and Austria in ELMAR (English abstracts) |
| 2009-08-31 | LUDOK Newsletter August 2009 |
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| New publications in LUDOK (in German only): Are short-term effects of particles due to their metal content? |
| 2009-07-27 | ISEE best paper award 2008 co-authored by STI/ISPM scientist Ch. Schindler |
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| The International Society for Environmental Epidemiolgy ISEE is delighted to announce that the Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper 2008 has been awarded to M Baccini, A Biggeri, G Accetta, T Kosatsky, K Katsouyanni, A Analitis, H. R Anderson, L Bisanti, D Ippoliti, J Danova, B Forsberg,S Medina, A Paldy, D Rabczenko, Christian Schindler, and P Michelozzi for their paper on Heat Effects on Mortality in 15 European Cities, published in Epidemiology 2008;19: 711-719. The paper makes an outstanding contribution to environmental epidemiology, and was selected for its quality, originality, importance and expected impact. |
| 2009-06-25 | LUDOK Newsletter June 2009 |
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| New publications in LUDOK (in German only): Traffic everywhere – a HEI expert assessment of health risks. A new health outcome in the spectrum of systemic inflammation: rheumatoid arthritis. |
| 2009-05-11 | ISPM Basel welcomes Nino Künzli as the new Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine / Public Health |
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| As of May, Nino Künzli has taken his new responsibilities as Chair and Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Basel. The collaborators of ISPM are highly pleased and warmly welcome him. The election of Prof. Nino Künzli is an important step to strengthen the competence in Public Health at the University of Basel, a process which will be developed together with the Swiss Tropical Institute. Since 2006, Künzli was ICREA Research Professor at CREAL in Barcelona . (ICREA). |
| 2009-04-29 | LUDOK Newsletter April 2009 |
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| The contribution of air pollution from traffic to the cardiovascular risk is probably independent from noise and vice versa. New studies in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2009-03-18 | ELMAR Newsletter March 2009 |
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| Adverse health effects due to mobile phone base stations? Risk of dementia near power lines? New studies in ELMAR. |
| 2009-03-18 | LUDOK Newsletter February 2009 |
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| The evidence for a causal connection between asthma incidence and air pollution is tightening steadily, new studies in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2009-02-10 | Escape Newsletter |
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| 2009-02-10 | job offer at ISPM |
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| Assistant project coordinator (80-100%) |
| 2008-12-29 | LUDOK Newsletter December 2008 |
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| heterogeneous effects of particles, new studies now in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2008-12-12 | ISPM Basel welcomes Fred Paccaud as the new Director of SSPH+ |
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| The University of Basel is one of the founders of the Swiss School of Public Health and is happy to announce the Symposium to welcome the new director Fred Paccaud and to bid farewell to Ursula Ackermann-Liebrich and Gilles de Weck |
| 2008-11-05 | LUDOK Newsletter October 2008 |
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| Quality of life in cities, traffic and trees, new studies now in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2008-09-04 | LUDOK Newsletter August 2008 |
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| Traffic exposure is associated with the development of asthma, strong evidence from a cohort study, now in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2008-07-23 | Newsletter ELMAR July 2008 |
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| Cardiovascular mortality and exposure to low-frequency magnetic fields in railway workers - Findings of the Swiss cohort study and other new study results now available in ELMAR (in German only). |
| 2008-06-27 | LUDOK Newsletter June 2008 |
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| Seveso: control of mortality over 25 years. - Which one of centrally measured particle fractions is closest related to hospital admissions?: Two interesting study results and more now in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2008-05-28 | job offer at ISPM |
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| Research scientist in environmental health |
| 2008-05-28 | Job offer |
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| Biostatistician at ISPM Basel |
| 2008-04-29 | LUDOK Newsletter April 2008 |
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| Inconsistencies in effects of ultrafines: are they due to different particles species? New study results now in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2008-03-10 | ELMAR Newsletter Winter 2007/2008 |
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| What’s the exposure level from mobile phone base stations and broadcasting transmitters in Basel? First results of a geospatial model with measurements now in ELMAR (in German only). |
| 2008-02-27 | LUDOK Newsletter February 2008 |
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| New Report: Fine particulates: a health hazard in Switzerland, but no new air quality standards. NL-Cohort study on air pollution, traffic and mortality and other new study results now in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2008-02-27 | LUDOK Newsletter december 2007 |
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| Traffic exhaust effects on lung function – more and more evidence. New targets in air pollution studies now in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2008-02-27 | Reduced Exposure to PM10 and Attenuated Age-Related Decline in Lung Function |
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| The paper having been published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that adults benefit from decreases in ambient PM10-concentrations in that their normal age-related decline in lung function is attenuated |
| 2008-01-31 | Job offer |
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| Assistant professor in Environmental Epidemiology at ISPM Basel |
| 2008-01-14 | Program of the symposium (ordinariat ISPM) Monday, the 28th of January |
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| 2007-10-30 | LUDOK Newsletter October 2007 |
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| Exposure to traffic and its consequences on the heart are the main topics in the new study results in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2007-09-24 | Review to the length of maternity leave and health of mother and child |
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| Longer maternity leaves are likely to produce health benefits. The new policy in Switzerland may improve the situation of women whose leave was minimal. |
| 2007-09-04 | ELMAR Newsletter Summer 2007 |
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| Two meta-analyses on brain tumour risks in mobile phone users – new study results in ELMAR (in German only) |
| 2007-09-04 | LUDOK Newsletter August 2007 |
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| Air pollution at work is linked with adult onset asthma and with ischaemic heart diseases – new study results in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2007-09-04 | Job offer |
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| 2007-08-31 | Tick-borne diseases in Switzerland and climate change |
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| Report on diseases transmitted by ticks in Switzerland and the relationships to climate change. The report highlights future implications for research and public health. |
| 2007-07-02 | Report «High Frequency Electromagnetic Fields and Health» |
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| This document updates the assessment of the health effects of high frequency radiation based on research findings published in the period from the end of 2002 to September 2006. The report has been prepared by the documentation service ELMAR on behalf of the Federal Office for the Environment. |
| 2007-07-02 | LUDOK Newsletter June 2007 |
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| Mould indoors: harmful or not? Passive smoking: without doubt! Blood clotting and stroke are recent health targets for air pollution studies – new results in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2007-06-01 | Job offer |
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| Position Open for: Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of environmental exposure science in
our multidisciplinary team at University of Basel to participate in various research projects- for more information please click the PDF |
| 2007-05-11 | PARSIFAL paper: Farm milk consumption protects from asthma and allergy |
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| The paper by M. Waser et al. indicate that consumption of farm milk may offer protection against asthma and allergy, independent of being a farm child or farm-related co-exposures |
| 2007-05-08 | LUDOK Newsletter April 2007 |
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| Respiratory health effects of chlorinated indoor swimming pools – new studies results and a review now in LUDOK (in German only) |
| 2007-04-10 | Job Offer: The Medical School in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy - France seeks... |
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| Enseignant-chercheur épidémiologiste de l'environnement - for more information please click pdf. |
| 2007-03-12 | Health related quality of life and radio frequency electromagnetic field exposure: Prospective cohort study |
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| This research project will measure and model the exposure of a general population sample to different sources of radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMF). It addresses the question of whether EMF exposure under real life conditions can cause symptoms or impair health-related quality of life. |
| 2007-03-02 | LUDOK Newsletter February 2007 |
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| Long-term health effects of traffic, coarse particles and the heart – new studies results now in LUDOK (German only). |
| 2007-02-21 | Study on adult physical activity levels in three Swiss alpinecommunities |
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| The article by Thommen et al. shows that physical activity levels of residents of three Swiss alpine communities with varying access to motorized transport differ significantly and are mainly explainable by passive means of transport |
| 2007-01-04 | LUDOK Newsletter |
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| Carbon nanotubes, wood combustion fumes, smoking ban, allergic rhinitis – pollutants or ambrosia: studies on headline topics 2006 now in LUDOK (in German only). |
| 2007-01-04 | GABRIEL study: fieldwork to screening phase starts |
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| The research project GABRIEL starts in January 2007 its fieldwork with distributing 40’000 parent’s questionnaires through over 400 primary schools in 9 German speaking Cantons. Learn more about the GABRIEL Study on the project website |
| 2006-11-08 | SAPALDIA paper on respiratory effects of passive smoking published in top scientific Journal. |
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| The paper by M. Gerbase, C. Schindler et al. shows that persons with increased bronchial reactivity are particularly susceptible to respiratory effects of environmental tobacco smoke. It was published in the renowned American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. |
| 2006-10-02 | Young Investigator Award of the European Society of Cardiology |
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| Denise Felber Dietrich was a finalists at the Young Investigators' Award in Population Sciences 2006 and received an award from the European Society of Cardiology for the abstract "Regular exercise corrects altered heart rate variability in obese people". |
| 2006-10-02 | New Job |
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| The SAPALDIA-project has an opening for a senior epidemiologist |
| 2006-09-21 | ECRHS: Traffic-related air pollution and chronic bronchitis |
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| New results from the European project ECRHS show that traffic-related air pollution has a negative effect on chronic bronchitis symptoms |
| 2006-09-21 | ECRHS: Properties of particulate matter PM2.5 in 21 European cities |
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| Methods of measurements an physical & chemical properties of particulate matter PM2.5 of 21 European cities were described in two new ECRHS publications. |
| 2006-09-01 | Press release: Sources of the particulate matter air pollution inside school buses |
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Sally Liu working at the ISPM Basel and the University of Washington presents new research on sources of particulate matter (PM) air pollution inside school buses by using new and reliable techniques to specifically measure PM. |
| 2006-08-09 | First SAPALDIA publication on the cardiovascular data assessed in 2002 |
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| The paper has appeared in EUROPACE. It reports associations between cardiovascular risk factors and heart rate variability (HRV) in adults over 50 and provides the first general percentile curves for various HRV parameters |
| 2006-06-29 | Public colloquium |
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| 4.07.06:Results of the studie “Bike to work”. Rebecca Surbeck. |
| 2006-06-22 | Further grant for the SAPALDIA study |
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| The SAPALDIA (Swiss cohort study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults) study will be supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation for another 3 year period until the end of March 2009. The funds will cover the project's infrastructure and the maintenance of the patient data bases and of the bio banks |
| 2006-06-22 | New Publication: Maternal exposure to stables during pregnancy affects the immune system of the child. Bieli et al. |
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| Maternal exposure to environments rich in microbial compounds is inversely associated with the risk of atopy and increases gene expression of receptors of the innate immune system in the offspring. This paper highlights the importance of prenatal environmental exposures for the development of allergic diseases |
| 2006-06-22 | Next public colloquium |
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| 20 June 2006: Epidemiologie depressiver Störungen. Prof. Rosalind Lieb, University of Basel |
| 2006-04-05 | New EU funded Research project to identify causes of asthma |
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| The ISPM Basel is part of a new integrated EU funded research project to identify the genetic an environmental causes of asthma in the European community (GABRIEL), that started at 1 March 2006 |
| 2006-03-28 | ISPM public colloquia |
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| Here you get the new collquium program of the ISPM Basel for the summer semster 2006 |
| 2006-03-27 | Particulate matter makes ill |
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| The ISPM Basel runs an up to date scientific literature database on the impact of fine particulate matter on human health |
| 2006-03-27 | Website updated |
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| Our completely updated website went online on 8 February 2006. Take a tour and give us your feedback |
| 2006-03-12 | Corinne Wyss-Münch verstorben |
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Wir haben die traurige Pflicht mitzuteilen, dass Frau Corinne Wyss-Münch, Koordinatorin des Stillmonitoring, am 28. Februar 2006 an den Folgen ihrer langjährigen Erkrankung verstorben ist.
"Die Erinnerung, das ist die gegenwärtige Vergangenheit"
Wir danken ihr für ihre Mitarbeit am Institut und behalten die Erinnerung an ihre positive Ausstrahlung, ihre Kraft und ihr frohes Gemüt. |
| 2006-02-22 | Particulate matter action plan |
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| The DETEC presents a action plan for reducing air pollution through fine particulate matter |
| 2006-02-22 | MPH-Graduation |
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| Julia Dratva and Sonja Merten have successfully completed their Master of Public Health theses – congratulations! |
| 2006-02-22 | Public colloquium |
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| 21 February 2006: Cancer and Neurodegenerative Disease Mortality among Swiss Railway Employees Exposed to Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Fields. Martin Röösli, Ph.D. |
