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Behind the scenes with the Natural History Museum's unsung heroes, who collect and classify new species of animals and insectsLike most young men, Henry Walter Bates sought adventure. Unlike most, he was also obsessed with beetles. So in 1848, aged 23, he set sail from Liverpool on the trading ship Mischief, bound for Brazil. During 11 years in "savage solitudes", the naturalist fell ill with malaria, yellow fever and dysentery; he was horribly lonely but, despite physical pain and mental anguish, he kept on collecting rainforest species never before seen by European eyes. When he left South America, never to return, he shipped to the Natural History Museum more than 8,000 different species – mostly insects – that were previously unknown to science.The Victorians' wonder at the miracle...

Cheaters have been big news lately from Tiger Woods to John Edwards. The media asks who does it, why they do it, signs to look for, types of cheaters and is it an addiction? Although that discussion is important it tends to neglect the equally important questions of what is it like for the partner of a cheater, who are they, how do they feel, do they ever recover and how do they decide whether to stay or leave?The AwakeningJoanne discovered that her husband was having an affair in the typical way, she looked at his cell phone, called the unknown number she found and a woman answered. She hung up the phone and began to pace. The thoughts that followed were "NO, NO, NO not me, not him, not our marriage. He wouldn't." The next thought was a recollection of a moment of suspicion - or was it cl...

A new research review finds strong evidence that needle-exchange programs reduce the sharing and reuse of dirty needles among drug addicts, but less-than-compelling data about the programs' effectiveness in reducing the spread of HIV. (Source: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News)

Just came across this excellent article by Polly Vernon about building a more comprehensive, tolerant understanding of marital infidelity. Vernon profiles (and interviews) Esther Perel, whose Mating in Captivity is one of the few couples therapy books out there that takes what I would call an "adult" approach to these matters.From the article:Perel thinks we have to work toward renegotiating our ideas of monogamy. We need to see it as an exclusive emotional commitment, but not an arrangement that necessarily denotes sexual exclusivity. She thinks that, in time, we'll come to accept affairs in the same way that we've come to accept premarital sex and homosexuality: not as deviancies, weaknesses or sin, but as part of who we are and how we love.In Perel's words:It's not just about right, and...

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Doctors yesterday (Tuesday, 16 March 2010) welcomed the launch of the DOE consultation on a new road safety strategy. Dr Paul Darragh, Chairman of the BMA's Northern Ireland Council said, "Doctors deal with the horrific aftermath of road traffic accidents on a daily basis, and believe that a new road safety strategy is important to continue to build on what has already been achieved... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Doctors yesterday (Tuesday, 16 March 2010) welcomed the launch of the DOE consultation on a new road safety strategy. Dr Paul Darragh, Chairman of the BMA's Northern Ireland Council said, "Doctors deal with the horrific aftermath of road traffic accidents on a daily basis, and believe that a new road safety strategy is important to continue to build on what has already been achieved... (Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today)

Conclusions: Our study investigated the effects of various patterns of neurotransmission on signal integration and interpretation by DARPP-32 and showed that the DARPP-32 system has discernibility of many neurotransmission scenarios. We also screened out potential mechanisms underlying this capability of the DARPP-32 system. This type of insight deepens our understanding of neuronal signal transduction in normal medium spiny neurons, sheds light on neurological disorders associated with the striatum, and might aid the search for intervention targets in neurological diseases and drug addiction. (Source: BMC Systems Biology - Latest articles)

Men and women with a history of alcohol abuse may not see long-term negative effects on their memory and thinking, but female smokers do, a new study suggests. In a study of 287 men and women ages 31 to 60, researchers found that those with past alcohol-use disorders performed similarly on standard tests of cognitive function as those with no past drinking problems. The findings were not as positive when it came to tobacco, however. In general, women who had ever been addicted to smoking had lower scores on certain cognitive tests than their nonsmoking counterparts... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Educational leaders from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) believe teaching the subject of unhealthy substance use must be incorporated into internal medicine residency training and can be done within existing teaching venues. The findings, which currently appear on-line in BioMedCentral Medical Education, represent a national model for addressing this issue for internal medicine residents. Unhealthy substance use can be serious and chronic and despite its prevalence and impact, medical education in this area remains lacking... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

Educational leaders from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) believe teaching the subject of unhealthy substance use must be incorporated into internal medicine residency training and can be done within existing teaching venues... (Source: Medical Students News From Medical News Today)

Conclusions  Uptake in human brain from a single inhalation was sufficiently rapid that it is plausible that fast rate-of-rise contributes to nicotine dependence in smokers. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original InvestigationDOI 10.1007/s00213-010-1809-8Authors Marc S. Berridge, 3D Imaging LLC Cyclotron Suite Rm PS010, UAMS Radiology #556, 4301 W. Markham St. Little Rock AR 72205-7199 USAScott M. Apana, 3D Imaging LLC Cyclotron Suite Rm PS010, UAMS Radiology #556, 4301 W. Markham St. Little Rock AR 72205-7199 USAKenichi K. Nagano, 3D Imaging LLC Cyclotron Suite Rm PS010, UAMS Radiology #556, 4301 W. Markham St. Little Rock AR 72205-7199 USACatherine E. Berridge, 3D Imaging LLC Cyclotron Suite Rm PS010, UAMS Radiology #556, 4301 W. Markham St. Little Rock AR 72...

Conclusions  The VTA DA neurons expressing functional κORs are critically involved in cocaine-induced reinstatement in rats. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original InvestigationDOI 10.1007/s00213-010-1812-0Authors WenLin Sun, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Pharmacology 874 Union Avenue, Crowe 115 Memphis TN 38163 USAYueQiang Xue, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Pharmacology 874 Union Avenue, Crowe 115 Memphis TN 38163 USAZaiFang Huang, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Pharmacology 874 Union Avenue, Crowe 115 Memphis TN 38163 USAJeffery D. Steketee, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Pharmacology 874 Union Avenue, Crowe 115 Memphis TN 38163 USA Journ...

Combining the antidepressant sertraline with the alcohol dependence treatment naltrexone produced a 54 percent abstinence rate in patients with both major depression and alcohol dependence, whereas the rates were only 21 to 28 percent for patients taking a placebo, sertraline only, or naltrexone only... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Sexual addiction, also called sexual dependency, hypersexuality, nymphomania, compulsive sexual behavior and sexual compulsivity, refers to the phenomenon in which individuals report being unable to manage their sexual behavior... (Source: Sexual Health / STDs News From Medical News Today)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

Combining the antidepressant sertraline with the alcohol dependence treatment naltrexone produced a 54 percent abstinence rate in patients with both major depression and alcohol dependence, whereas the rates were only 21 to 28 percent for patients taking a placebo, sertraline only, or naltrexone only... (Source: Depression News From Medical News Today)

Gordon B. Mills, Yosef Yarden. Several cancer drugs intercept the ErbB family receptors EGFR (ErbB-1) and HER2 (ErbB-2). However, the therapeutic value of targeting ErbB-3 has been less clear. A report in this issue of Cance.... (Source: Cancer Cell)

Andrew C. Hsieh, Maria Costa, Ornella Zollo, Cole Davis, Morris E. Feldman, Joseph R. Testa, Oded Meyuhas, Kevan M. Shokat, Davide Ruggero. We genetically dissect the contribution of the most prominent downstream translational components of mTOR signaling toward Akt-driven lymphomagenesis. While phosphorylation of rpS6 is dispensable .... (Source: Cancer Cell)

SEOUL, March 15 (UPI) -- South Korea will offer Web addicts free software to install on their computers to limit their access time to the Internet, officials said. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)