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Why are so many young people at risk of dying at music festivals?Yet another young person dead after taking drugs at a music festival, bringing the summer overdose toll at these events to five. Matt Noffs, CEO of the Ted Noffs Foundation, speaks to The World Today about some of the risk factors behind this terrible toll.
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He's spent his working life helping save people from natural disasters – now he's dyingIt's Sutopo Purwo Nugroho's job is to inform the Indonesian public about natural disasters, and for the past year he has also publicly documented his own personal disaster as he slowly dies from stage-four lung cancer.
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Royal Australasian College of Physicians calls for festival pill testing | Sky News AustraliaA leading Australian doctor group, representing more than 17,000 physicians and paediatricians, has supported pill testing in an open letter to the New South Wales Premier.\n\nThe Royal Australasian College of Physicians is urging Gladys Berejiklian to adopt the front-line protection against drugs at music festivals to prevent more people dying to fatal concoctions.\n\nNSW Opposition Leader Michael Daley says he will introduce pill testing, provided it is recommended at a national drug summit he plans to host if elected. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n
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Public patients forced into caesareans as ancient birth practice declinesDelivering babies bottom first is a “dying art” in Victoria’s hospitals and could cease entirely because younger doctors no longer have experience in this kind of birth.
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