When it comes to health risks, sex does matter. Women are twice as likely as men to get multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and migraines. They're also more likely to get cataracts, hepatitis, and thyroid disease. Women experience depression about twice as often as men. And irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is thought to affect twice as many women as men. Although men have more heart attacks...

In the present study an attempt is made to investigate sex related difference in handedness among adults. It was hypothesized that there will be a difference in the performance of males and females on measure of handedness. 704 males and 840 females were given a group test of handedness. The result indicates that females tended to score significantly high on performance test of handedness than ...

Recently, interindividual differences in tolerance to shift work have become an increasing interest in chronobiological shift work studies.1) A number of factors have been investigated2) such as sex, age, general health status, quality and quantity of sleep, internal desynchronization between body temperature and sleep-wake cycle, morningness-eveningness, introversion-extroversion, job satisfic...