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May 2nd, 2011

BlogTV: Encounters for Change with “Etincelle”

This week, our BlogTV takes on a different perspective. It is not so much a report as it is an intimate conversation with Josette Rousselet-Blanc, founder of the association known as Etincelle (translated as “spark” or “twinkle”).
With a radiant smile, Josette recounts how Etincelle came into existence and what it stands for. The association works [...]

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Lily Dionne

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April 7th, 2011

Reporters for a Day with “Planète Equitable”

Join 6 Belgian medical students from the University of Hasselt as they voyage to Nalou, Mali, with the Planete Equitable organization.
We can’t really say that they’re volunteers; it is more appropriate to describe them as participants in a “Sustainable Tourism” mission. Over their visit, they brought medicine as well as their medical skills to the [...]

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Lily Dionne

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March 28th, 2011

BlogTV: Fighting Rare Diseases

Have you ever heard of Choroideremia?
Also known as CHM, it’s a rare hereditary disorder that causes progressive loss of vision, due to the degeneration of the choroid and the retina.
As rare disease, Choroideremia currently has no treatment, though research is being conducted and progress is being made. Marie-Catherine, whose young son Victorien has been diagnosed [...]

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Lily Dionne

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March 18th, 2011

CIB renews its support for medical research

As a part of its corporate philanthropy policy piloted by the BNP Paribas Foundation, CIB (Corporate & Investment Banking) has chosen to continue its partnership with the Institut Pasteur for the third year running.
The entity’s support comes in the form of financial aid to medical research teams that are a part of the Institut [...]

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Lily Dionne

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March 8th, 2011

An Exceptional Woman Honoured

On Tuesday, March 8th, The “Institut Curie” decided to dedicate the 100th International Women’s Day to its founder, Marie Curie. [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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March 1st, 2011

Unique and United

Founded in June 2010, ProRaris is the umbrella organization for all associations related to rare diseases across Switzerland. [...]

Renovating a rehabilitation centre near Dakar

The Jacques Chirac Centre is specialized in drug rehabilitation, and is a point of reference for the fight against drug use in Senegal. It is also renowned for work on AIDS awareness. [...]

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Malick Magueye Diaw

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November 23rd, 2010

Bone Health: A Question of Prevention

On Tuesday 16 November, a conference was presented by Professor René Rizzoli, head doctor at the department for bone disease at Geneva University Hospitals (HUG – Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève) and a professor at the faculty for medicine in Geneva, was on the theme, “Bone health: a matter of prevention”
More than 150 employees from the [...]

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Dagmar Nardacchione-Widmer

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November 8th, 2010

BlogTV: “Pasteurdon” 2010

Each year, the Pasteur Institute for medical research opens its doors to the public for the “Pasteurdon” fundraising campaign. On October 23rd and 24th across France, the Institute’s museum, laboratories, and a variety of scientific workshops and conferences were open to the public. The BlogTV team was there to find out what the “Pasteur spirit” [...]

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