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Patients are being put at risk by medicine supply shortages which leave pharmacies unable to dispense prescriptions at least once a day, health leaders have warned.The National Pharmacy Association (NPA), which represents 6,000 independent community pharmacies, said the Government must urgently grant much greater flexibility for pharmacists to substitute medication when it is safe to do so.At the moment, patients must go back to their GP for a new prescription if the item or dose they have been prescribed is out of stock.The only exception to this rule is in very limited circumstances when a Serious Shortage Protocol has been…

Scientists have brought science fiction one step closer to reality by achieving the first two-way communication between individuals during lucid dreaming.In an experiment that sounds like a scene out of the movie ‘Inception,’ REMspace – a California-based startup that designs technology to enhance sleep and lucid dreaming – reportedly exchanged a message between two people who were asleep.The company used ‘specially designed equipment’ which included a ‘server,’ an ‘apparatus,’ ‘Wifi’ and ‘sensors,’ but did not specify the exact technology they used. The study participants were asleep in separate homes when REMspace researchers beamed a word created through a unique language between…

A tourist has been savagely attacked by a shark off a Caribbean beach, with reports that the victim lost both her hands as her husband tried to fight the beast off.The woman, believed to be a Canadian national, had been enjoying a holiday to the Turks and Caicos islands when the bloody attack happened last Friday.She was just a few yards from the shore when the predator struck, according to local media.The 55-year-old had been wading in the shallows as she ‘attempted to engage’ with the animal and take a picture of it, local authorities said. Witnesses said the woman’s family…

By TED THORNHILL, MAILONLINE TRAVEL EDITOR Published: 13:37, 6 February 2025 | Updated: 16:29, 6 February 2025 Incredible footage has been unveiled that shows a pilot landing his plane on some of the most dangerous runways in the world – including one with a 30 per cent gradient and others that can barely be seen on the approach amid mountainous rainforest.Brit Matt Dearden, 45, has been revealing scary landings he makes using cockpit and external cameras, explaining: ‘These videos show various landings in a mountainous and remote region of Papua, Indonesia.’The aircraft is a Swiss-built Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter that…

Oprah Winfrey continued to show off her trim frame amid her dramatic weight loss as she attended the 23rd Annual Power of a Dream event in Washington D.C. on Thursday. The TV personality, 70 – who recently flaunted her slim figure at an Ozempic book event after admitting to taking weight loss medication – wowed during the festivities which took place at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. The star – who had once weighed 237lbs at one point – donned a shimmering, silver skirt that had pleated details and fell down to brush the ground. Winfrey additionally wore a matching jacket…

It’s one of the biggest unanswered questions in science – if there’s life beyond Earth, where is it?While you might think the answer is ‘far far away’, surprisingly, it could be much closer to home than we thought.A new study suggests that extraterrestrials could be hiding just 1.7 billion miles from Earth – on Uranus’ moon, Miranda. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory have discovered evidence of an ocean beneath Miranda’s surface, which they say could be habitable.    ‘To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising,’ said Tom Nordheim, co-author of the study.’It helps…

The idea of a deadly artificial bacteria taking over the human body might sound like something from the next season of The Last of Us. But a Nobel Prize-winning biologist has now warned that it could become a reality, amid rising interest in deadly ‘mirror bacteria’.Mirror bacteria are a type of fully synthetic life in which all the biological molecules are replaced with ‘mirrored’ alternatives.Last week, a group of 38 leading scientists from around the globe issued an urgent warning calling for a halt on research which could create these lethal lifeforms. Professor Gregory Winter, a molecular biologist from the University of…

By CALUM MUIRHEAD Updated: 17:01 EST, 21 November 2024 Royal Mail has warned of more price hikes as a result of the Chancellor’s National Insurance raid.Martin Seidenberg, head of parent company International Distribution Services (IDS), said it would need to raise prices to offset a £120million hit from measures unveiled in the Budget last month.The 508-year-old postal service has already increased the cost of a first-class stamp three times in a year, from £1.10 to £1.65.Seidenberg said the rise in National Insurance – effectively a tax on jobs – would hit hard because it employs around 130,000 staff. Hikes: Royal…

A radical feminist opera which includes explicit lesbian sex scenes, real blood and injuries, and naked roller-skating nuns, has left 18 audience members needing medical treatment in Germany.Sancta Susanna by composer Paul Hindemith caused a scandal back in 1921, with outraged critics labelling the one-act opera, which tells the story of a suppressed nun discovering her sexuality, too blasphemous to be shown.Its premiere at the Stuttgart Opera was cancelled, but more than 100 years later, it has now been staged in the city for the first time – with the shock factor amped up to dizzying new heights in what its…

By TED THORNHILL, MAILONLINE TRAVEL EDITOR and ASSOCIATED PRESS and REUTERS Published: 08:17 EST, 2 December 2024 | Updated: 08:57 EST, 2 December 2024 A driverless metro system hailed as ‘unique in the world’ opened on Saturday in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki.The 9.6km (six-mile) line cost three billion euros (£2.5billion) and in the course of construction – which lasted almost 20 years – over 300,000 treasures were unearthed, many of which are now on display in the subway’s 13 stations.Workers discovered a Byzantine-era market, a Roman cemetery and the remains of Thessaloniki’s busiest street in the 6th century.This was a…