FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two crew members on a Holland America cruise ship died during an “incident” in the ship’s engineering space, the cruise line said. The unidentified crew members died Friday while the Florida-based Nieuw Amsterdam was at Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas, Holland America said in a statement. Authorities were notified and… Continue reading 2 crew members die during ‘incident’ on Holland America cruise ship
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3 people die from flesh-eating bacteria infections in New York and Connecticut, prompting new guidance
Three people in New York and Connecticut have died from a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection, prompting officials to issue new guidance about both avoiding and diagnosing it. Officials said one person in New York’s Suffolk County, on eastern Long Island, and two people in Connecticut have died from infections linked to vibriosis, an illness caused… Continue reading 3 people die from flesh-eating bacteria infections in New York and Connecticut, prompting new guidance
My live fast, die young youth was fun, but I don’t expect the NHS to pick up the pieces | James Bethell
Ten years of high living while managing the Ministry of Sound was the best fun a young man can have. But combined with my college boozing, social smoking, ice-cream bingeing and the mental repercussions of my mother’s tragic suicide, those heady 4am moments on the dancefloor will apparently lead, with grim inevitability, to a broken… Continue reading My live fast, die young youth was fun, but I don’t expect the NHS to pick up the pieces | James Bethell
We can see what happens when political posturing replaces public health: people die prematurely | Polly Toynbee
“Air pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health.” So says the government’s stark guidance on its own official website. It warns that “between 28,000 and 36,000 deaths every year” are due to “human-made air pollution”, and yes, that’s official. London is one of the cities with the worst air, with its poorest people… Continue reading We can see what happens when political posturing replaces public health: people die prematurely | Polly Toynbee