Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan has joined a number of medical centers around the country in creating a special emergency room for geriatric patients.

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Geriatric Emergency Units Opening at U.S. Hospitals

Seven crew members of an RAF Chinook helicopter have escaped injury after their aircraft made an emergency landing in the southern US.

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RAF Chinook in emergency landing

Brian Stelter of the New York Times is reporting that NBC has fired a producer “involved” in the shameful abridgement of the George Zimmerman conversation with an emergency dispatcher just prior to the killing of Trayvon Martin. Here’s the meat of Stelter’s scoop: Read full article > >

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NYT: NBC has fired producer in Zimmerman scandal

Emergency engineers say plans to pump heavy mud into the pipeline leaking gas on board a North Sea platform can go ahead.

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‘Mud kill’ gas plans to proceed

Leading oil companies in South Africa and Greece suspended imports of the country’s crude oil, further signs of emergency self-reliance emerging in Iran.

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Iran Apparently Seeking Other Location for Nuclear Talks Besides Turkey

An 80-year-old US woman with little flying experience has staged an emergency landing in Wisconsin after her pilot husband collapsed and died.

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VIDEO: Woman lands plane as husband dies

A coroner’s court hears how it took emergency crews three days to find the body of a Derbyshire woman whose house caught fire due to the amount of rubbish she had hoarded.

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Hoarder’s body hidden by rubbish

A US domestic flight made an emergency landing after the captain began shouting about a bomb.

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VIDEO: ‘Bomb’ cry forces Texas landing

Plane makes emergency landing after captain needs to be subdued.

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JetBlue Pilot Goes ‘Nuts’ in the Air

The environment secretary writes to the UK government voicing concerns over the removal of an emergency towing vessel from Stornoway.

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Lochhead voices tug cover concern

Indiana, Kentucky declare state of emergency.

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Southern Storms Kill More Than 30

A major exercise testing security and emergency services in the event of a terror attack during the Olympic and Paralympic Games is to take place later.

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Olympics security test to be held

Transcripts of phone conversations in the days after last year’s tsunami in Japan, released Tuesday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, show an early sense of urgency, as well as confusion, about the emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor complex. Read full article > >

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NRC Fukushima transcripts show urgency, confusion early on

I know where this phone call is going. I’m on the hospital wards, and a physician in the emergency room downstairs is talking to me about an elderly patient who needs to be admitted to the hospital. The patient is new to me, but the story is familiar: He has several chronic conditions — heart failure, weak kidneys, anemia, Parkinson’s and mild dementia — all tentatively held in check by a fistful of medications. He’s been falling more frequently, and his appetite has fallen off, too. Now a stroke threatens to topple this house of cards. Read full article > >

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Our unrealistic attitudes about death, through a doctor’s eyes

A police officer is stabbed while responding to an emergency call in the Kilwilkie estate in Lurgan.

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Police officer slashed with knife