Most lobotomies were done on women

Violence to women--what can be done?

Physical exposures in work commonly done by women.

The North American work force is still highly sex-segregated, with most members of each sex in jobs composed primarily of workers of the same sex. This division is accentuated when jobs involve physical demands. Women have traditionally been assigned to tasks whose physical demands are considered to be light. Nevertheless, these tasks can have biological effects, sometimes serious. Phenomena re...

Getting it done on time

Purpose – The purpose of this contribution is to focus on an essential issue in all workplace settings where the emphasis is on productivity, time management and creativity: getting innovative, high quality work completed in time according to tight schedules – often facing serious staff shortages. The intention is not to offer an ultimate answer, but to take a different look at the issues that ...

Pregnancy-induced hypertension in women who were born small.

We assessed whether a pregnant woman who was born small for gestational age has increased risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), and whether the same applies to a pregnant partner of a man who was born small for gestational age. We linked generational data from the medical birth registry of Norway (1967-2005). Female and male newborns were identified as parents with 197,716 and 131,959 f...

Visual pathway abnormalities were found in most multiple sclerosis patients despite history of previous optic neuritis.

OBJECTIVE It was to investigate visual field (VF) abnormalities in a group of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients in the remission phase and the presence of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) lesions in the optic radiations. METHODS VF was assessed in 60 participants (age range 20-51 years): 35 relapsing-remitting MS patients [20 optic neuritis (+), 15 optic neuritis (-)] and 25 controls. MRI (3-T...