When smoked, crystal meth rapidly achieves high concentrations in the brain without the burdens of the intravenous route. Stephen J. Kish PhD of the Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, University of Toronto, and the Human Neurochemical Pathology Laboratory, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, reviews the actions of methamphetamine and explains the potential role of dopamine in methamphetamine craving.

Kish states that there is no medication approved for the treatment of relapses of methamphetamine addiction, but potential therapeutic agents targeted to dopamine and non-dopamine systems are in clinical testing.

WATFORD, England, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Salmon, a specialist in delivering eCommerce solutions today announces that they have implemented a new eCommerce platform to support the vision of Scotts & Co., for 50% of turnover to be delivered by the online channel by 2011 and to maximise opportunities offered by the new online market.

WATFORD, England, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Salmon, specialists in delivering eCommerce solutions, today announces growing adoption and success of the Salmon Application Framework for eCommerce (SAFE(TM)). SAFE(TM) is a fully developed, tested and pre-configured solution comprising reusable components and a mature methodology, significantly lowering the costs and reducing the risks typically associated to implementing IBM WebSphere Commerce.

MILTON KEYNES, England, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Executives, managers and staff need separate software to help them focus on their specific areas. The integration of all these pieces is a major problem and rarely results in a cohesive view of a company, making management very difficult.

However software, like it or loathe it, forms a cornerstone of all operational strategies because if you cannot measure your performance, how are you going to manage it? The existing software market is very vertical in the operational management area and so to cover all areas, a company may need 10 or more pieces of software in addition to the core ERP solution to support the management team.

LONDON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Morodo Ltd is pleased to announce that its popular MO-Call low-cost international calling service is now supported in 12 languages at the website: http://www.mo-call.com

Morodo's Managing Director, Andrew Reid, said, "MO-Call is used by customers from over 150 countries. To offer a truly global service, we've localised our websites. At http://www.mo-call.com, customers are now offered 12 language choices. In our 'test-bed' market, Hong Kong, we've made even greater loclaisation changes to http://www.mo-call.hk. Morodo's goal is to become the world's largest Virtual International Mobile Network Operator, we'll only achieve that goal if we understand the needs of our customers."

KEIGHLEY, Yorkshire, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- A registered charity which offers the UK's most effective carbon-offset programme has been chosen to benefit from a major project designed to make online shopping greener.

PURE the Clean Planet Trust will receive donations generated by internet shopping through consumer community portal http://www.froggybank.co.uk

The charity (no. 1112249) will use these to support United Nations approved emissions reduction projects.

froggybank has committed to help UK shoppers generate enough funds to enable PURE to eliminate one million tons of carbon emissions by 2012.

Amenorrhea, or absence of menstruation, occurs in as many as 25 percent of female high school athletes, compared with 2 to 5 percent in the general population, according to the study's presenter, Madhusmita Misra, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

Amenorrhea in athletes is known to cause infertility and early onset of low bone density and may increase the risk of breaking bones. Evidence suggests that intense exercise associated with caloric restriction, and therefore a state of energy deficit, is most responsible for menstrual irregularities among athletes.

In females ages 12 to 18, Misra and her colleagues measured levels of various hormones, including ghrelin. Giving ghrelin to animals and humans has been shown to cause impaired secretion of hormones that regulate ovarian and menstrual function, and ghrelin levels are elevated in people with anorexia nervosa, another condition of severe energy deficit, she said. Until now, ghrelin levels have not been studied in teenage athletes in relation to ovarian hormones.

CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Essilor and the Swiss company Schweiter Technologies AG announced today that they have signed a share purchase agreement whereby Essilor will offer to acquire the shares of Schweiter subsidiary Satisloh Holding AG. The agreement is subject to certain conditions precedent, including approval by competition authorities in Satisloh's main host countries. The acquisition could be completed in the second half of the year.

FRANKFURT, Germany, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

RTS Realtime Systems Group, a leading trading solutions provider, announced that Dubai-based GTL Trading DMCC has successfully deployed RTD Tango for its proprietary trading on the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX).

A Dubai-based broker and clearing member of the DGCX, GTL Trading is utilizing RTS' algorithmic trading solution RTD Tango for market making. The firm is also utilizing the RTS Datacenter Hubs for connectivity to DGCX and additional counterparties.

GTL, which provides execution and clearing services, is using RTD Tango for high frequency two-way market making of gold, currencies and the newly launched cash-settled WTI Light Sweet Crude Oil and Brent Crude Oil Futures contracts.

There are microbialites, strange coral-like growths, at the bottom of Pavilion Lake in British Columbia. They have been out of the reach of scientists but with the addition of new submersible technology they can now be studied.

The growths might, says Greg Slater, an environmental geochemist at McMaster University, hold the key to life beyond Earth.

These unique carbonate rock structures are known as microbialites because they are covered with microbes. Some of these microbialites grow at depths up to 180 feet below the water's surface, too deep to reach by non-decompression SCUBA diving.