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‘It allowed her to feel at ease’: Fear that dying patients could face greater suffering due to drug shortages

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Jodi Adams said her daughter Cosette was able to die painlessly after receiving the drug.

Doctors fear dying patients could face more pain and suffering due to an anticipated shortage of a type of morphine. A drug called Order, a liquid form of the opioid used to treat severe pain, is expected to be stopped in Australia. It is given to people dying of cancer and suffering from other life-limiting … Read more

Tasmanian devils face threats from rapidly evolving facial tumors

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Tasmanian devil with facial tumor

TAsmanian devil populations have declined in recent decades due to two contagious facial tumors that cause debilitating growths. Now, together with an international group of scientists and organisations, researchers from the University of Cambridge have conducted a large study on genetic sequencing published in Scienceand found that one of those tumors is evolving at an … Read more