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Ukraine invasion: Aid agencies warn of humanitarian emergency

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Infections, lack of clean water and loss of healthcare are among the dangers facing Ukrainian people, with some hospitals already out of oxygen Health 28 February 2022 By Clare Wilson People fleeing the war in Ukraine shelter in Lviv railway station Bernat Armangue/AP/Shutterstock​ Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is causing a humanitarian emergency, aid agencies have … Read more

Waiting Over 5 Hours in ER Is Linked to Higher Death Rates, New Data Show

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As emergency rooms worldwide are flooded with a wave of new COVID-19 patients, a large study in the United Kingdom has laid out the deadly consequences of delayed critical care.   Nearly 27 million individuals attended a major emergency room in England from 2016 to 2018, waiting on average just under five hours for a … Read more

China’s Shenzhou 13 astronauts manually fly cargo ship for emergency docking test

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China’s Shenzhou 13 astronauts conducted a manual rendezvous and docking test over the weekend to test emergency procedures for spacecraft visiting the Chinese space station. The complex test involved the Tianzhou 2 cargo spacecraft undocking from the Tianhe core module of China’s Tiangong space station. The astronauts aboard Tianhe then teleoperated Tianzhou 2, guiding it … Read more

COVID Is Driving a Children’s Mental Health Emergency

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When COVID shut down life as usual in the spring of 2020, most physicians in the U.S. focused on the immediate physical dangers from the novel coronavirus. But soon pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris began thinking of COVID’s longer-term emotional damage and those who would be especially vulnerable: children. “The pandemic is a massive stressor,” explains … Read more

COVID Is Driving a Chlidren’s Mental Health Emergency

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When COVID shut down life as usual in the spring of 2020, most physicians in the U.S. focused on the immediate physical dangers from the novel coronavirus. But soon pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris began thinking of COVID’s longer-term emotional damage and those who would be especially vulnerable: children. “The pandemic is a massive stressor,” explains … Read more

Leonardo DiCaprio: How comet-themed ‘Don’t Look Up’ shows climate crisis as an emergency

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s longstanding passion for climate change, which even brought him to NASA a few years back, is now on screen in a new movie. The Oscar-winning actor (“The Revenant”, “Inception”) is the lead for the cast of “Don’t Look Up” (Netflix, Dec. 10), a dark satire about a deadly comet heading for Earth. Director … Read more