Late night chat link set to save lives.

Doctors in Australia and the UK now have a late-night "chat lifeline" that can save lives by providing them with immediate medical information.

The antipodean "Chasing the Sun" project is the first international virtual reference service for health professionals. It uses Internet chat to provide doctors and nurses working outside regular working hours with answers to late-night patient care queries from librarians in their sister city on the other side of the world.

Clinicians at the South West Division of the UK National Health Service and …