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Female patients are less likely to be prescribed pain medication compared to male patients under similar conditions in emergency departments, a new study has found. Researchers from the US and Israel analysed over 21,000 patient records in the two countries. They noted that women are prescribed fewer pain relief medications for both opioids and non-opioids than male patients. Their findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(PNAS). This discrepancy spans across medical professionals, with both male and female physicians prescribing fewer pain-relief m...
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More than 100 people are feared injured in Russia after a train collided with a truck in the southwestern Volgograd region, according to the country’s state-owned railway company. Russian Railways confirmed in a message on its Telegram channel that eight carriages of the passenger train derailed in the collision. Relief teams and repair trains were immediately dispatched to the scene, while service on the part of the railway line impacted has been halted indefinitely. Officials say more than 800 people were on the train travelling from Kazan in southwest Russia to Adler on Russia’s Black Sea c...
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At least four people were killed after extensive flooding and landslides caused by heavy storms struck Switzerland and northern Italy. The bodies of three people were recovered after a landslide in the Italian-speaking Swiss county of Ticino on the southern side of the Alps. Heavy rain had pounded the South and West of Switzerland throughout the weekend. Camping sites were evacuated, bridges collapsed, and one person is still missing in the Swiss Lavizzara valley. Further north, the Rhone river burst its banks in several areas within the Valais region. A motorway and railway line were both flo...
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London carried out a training exercise to test its ability to cope with 40C heat on Thursday. Named ‘Operation Helios’ after the Greek god of the sun, it explored a scenario where extreme heat hits the capital for five days - one scientists warn could be a reality as early as 2027. It was led by Greater London Authority’s London Resilience Unit and involved more than 80 participants from emergency services to local government, environment agencies and transport companies. It comes after the London Climate Resilience Review published a report in March which recommended that the city test its pr...
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A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations more than 2,000 people were believed to have been buried alive by Friday's landslide and has formally asked for international help. The government figure is roughly triple the UN estimate of 670 killed in the South Pacific island nation's mountainous interior. The remains of only six people have been recovered so far. Estimates of the casualties have varied widely since the disaster, and it remains unclear how officials determined the number of people affected. The International Organisation for Migration, which is working clos...
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