Western Sydney, NSW, AUS. Our heroes have always been flawed. Heathcliff was a vengeful misanthrope with necrophiliac tendencies. Mr Knightley was an annoying elitist who belittled his heroine. Mr Darcy was essentially a bad tempered snob. And let’s not get into Mr Rochester and his poor mad wife in the attic. Yet despite their vices, at least in the past we could count on our heroes to at least be human. Today it seems that every protagonist of note has fangs and a healthy appetite for

Seattle, WA, USA. Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days.

According to new research, hose men overestimated by two to three times the actual rates of seven behaviors ranging from throwing something at a partner to rape.

The work is the first to document overestimation of intimate partner violence by batterers and is consistent

Phoenix, AZ, USA. Details emerging from Arizona’s new budget — approved by state lawmakers late Thursday (March 11) — are staggering. More than 310,000 adults and 47,000 low-income children will lose health insurance under the plan, which reduces spending by about $1.1 billion, eliminates full-day kindergarten and, according to The Arizona Republic, slashes funds “that were one of the last best hopes for the state parks system to stay afloat.”

Arizona was listed just behind Cal

Washington, DC, USA. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has launched an online tool to help educators teach the next generation of nurses and physician assistants about genetics and genomics. NHGRI is a part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Genetics/Genomics Competency Center (G2C2), developed by the University of Virginia through a NHGRI contract, is a free collection of materials on genetics and genomics designed for educators who train nurses and

San Diego, CA, USA. For all those people dismayed by the scenes on television of looting in disaster-struck zones, whether the location be be Chili, Haiti, or elsewhere, take heart: Good acts — genuine acts of kindness, generosity and cooperation — spread just as easily as bad. And it takes only a handful of individuals to really make a difference.

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from the University of California, San D