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Surgeons preparing for an operation

Children in poorer countries face almost sixfold higher risk of dying after emergency surgery

07 May 2026

Children who need life‑saving emergency surgery after a serious injury are almost six times more likely to die if in poorer countries than in...

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Turkey earthquake – a glimpse of the ECHO assessment

Cambridge engineer to co-lead earthquake reconnaissance mission to Turkey

13 Feb 2023

Professor Emily So will lead a UK response to uncover the causes of the extensive damage and loss of life

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Dr Lucy Delap

Shipwrecked: women and children first?

20 Jan 2012

Romantic notions of heroism - the captain refusing to leave his sinking ship, women and children being ushered to safety - have been shattered by...

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