OBJECTIVES The emotional adjustment of couples undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatments has been widely studied; however, it remains unclear whether infertility history contributes to couples' adjustment. This study examined the impact of infertility history (duration of infertility and number of previous ART treatment cycles) on the emotional adjustment of couples undergoin...

Sir.?The aims of your paper in regard to the public health, as set out in your New Year's issue, are excellent. And as everyone seems to be waking up at last to the fact that the housing question overshadows every other question in domestic politics, perhaps something will be accomplished. Questions of housing and health must not, however, be allowed to become the playthings of politics. Every ...

This paper describes the “Privacy-Enhancing Technology Users’ Self-Estimation Scale (PET-USES)”, a questionnaire that enables users to evaluate PET user interfaces for their overall usability and to measure six different PET aspects. The PET-USES is intended to be used during usability testing and evaluation of PET user interfaces. The focus of the PET-USES is the subjective experience of the u...

Scholars of differing political affiliation and the President's Council on Bioethics have called for regulation of assisted reproductive technology (ART) that would emulate many aspects of the regulatory system of the United Kingdom, in particular that of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Specifically, scholars and the Council have argued that research in the U.S. involving game...

Given the enormous ethicolegal controversies surrounding the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in the United States, the most important role for nurses may be helping couples and third party participants obtain fully informed consent. The high compensation fees for egg donors may place them at special risk of exploitation. New government and professional guidelines, broader repres...

This paper presents a system for exploring different dimensions of a sound through the use of haptic feedback. The Novint Falcon force feedback interface is used to scan through soundfiles as a subject moves their hand horizontally from left to right, and to relay information about volume, frequency content, envelopes, or potentially any analysable parameter back to the subject through forces a...

The incidence of heterotopic/ectopic pregnancy in recent times has increased partly due to the increase in assisted reproductive technologies, whereas such medical cases and cervical pregnancy in particular are extremely rare with spontaneous conception. We report on three patients referred to our department in one week: one patient each with spontaneous heterotopic pregnancy, cervical pregnanc...

Is there a more important situation where one should apply the precautionary principle than in assisted reproductive technologies (ART)? Although ART are formidable answers to the distress of couples having difficulties to conceive, these technologies are far from being totally well controlled. The worldwide increasing demand on ART is by itself an alarming situation that should promote more re...

Several opinion polls have reported that many people claim to be concerned about their privacy, yet that most people in fact do very little to protect their privacy. Are privacy concerns indeed insufficient motivators to adopt privacy protection strategies? What then characterizes the users of these strategies? On the basis of a large scale survey amongst Dutch students, this paper explores the...