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Nurses File DPH Complaint Over Use Of Life-Threatening Medical Devices At UC Irvine Medical Center
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee announces that it filed a complaint with the California Department of Public Health (DPH), calling for an urgent investigation into the ongoing use of dozens of narcotic infusion pumps at the University of California Irvine Medical Center that have a history of failure, thereby exposing patients to a dangerous overdose of narcotics.
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Mate Selection: How Does She Know He'll Take Care Of The Kids

Throughout the animal kingdom brilliant colors or elaborate behavioral displays serve as "advertisements" for the process of attracting mates. But, what do the ads promise and is there truth in advertizing? Researchers at Yale theorize that when males must provide care for the survival of their offspring, the males" "advertisements" will always be honest - and they may devote more of their energy to caring for their offspring than to attracting females. The idea that males try to advertise their best qualities to attract females for mating isn"t a new one, nor is the idea that they might be deceptive in what they are advertising. According to Natasha Kelly, a graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology and lead author, their new model more closely predicts the requirement for honesty in advertizing as a function of the male"s suitability for parenting. The peacock"s tail, or the primping and posturing guy in a bar are "advertisements" or mating displays that take substantial energy to maintain. When a male"s energy is heavily focused on keeping up his appearance, he may have little energy to devote to caring for offspring. But that may be ok - he may not need to tend to the kids. Previous research suggested that, under certain circumstances, males could be dishonest about their parenting skills and still have high reproductive success. This new model, appearing June 11 online before print in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, examines the reliability of males" mating signals when they must care for offspring - an aspect that was missing in earlier studies. There are many species where males should, but do not have to, provide parental care -where females pick up the slack. These researchers focuses on those species where females can"t pick up the slack and males pay the price of not providing care. "This new work shows that when males can not escape the cost of their own failure to provide care, their advertisements will always be reliable," said principal investigator Suzanne Alonzo, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale. "The qualifier in this case is where males are obligated to provide care," said Kelly. "In that case, the quiet guy in the corner might be the better choice for fatherhood." The National Science Foundation and Yale University funded this research. Citation: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, online before print June 11, 2009, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0599 Yale University


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