AIM To determine the use and teratogenicity of herbal medicinal products (HMP). METHODS A retrospective study was conducted in a University hospital to compare the difference in the pattern of use and fetal outcomes between pregnant women who took HMP and Western pharmaceutical products (WPP). RESULTS From 1995 Jan to 2001 Dec, 61 and 372 women took HMP and WPP one month before or during th...

Major depression forms the background of upwards of half of all suicides. Women are twice as likely as men to experience major depression, yet women are one fourth as likely as men to take their own lives. Current and past explanations of this paradox are built on androcentric assumptions that women are deficient in some way. The reverse may be true where suicide is concerned. Men value indepen...

Interruptions are part of everyday life and are known to be disruptive. With the current study we investigated which kind of interruption is more disruptive: external interruptions or self-interruptions. We conducted two experiments, one behavioral experiment (28 participants) and one in which pupil dilation was measured (21 participants). In both experiments, self-interruptions made participan...

Research in social sciences other than economics indicates substantial differences in behaviour between men and women. The general conclusion drawn from this work is that women will be more socially-orientated (sel ̄ess), and men more individually-orientated (sel®sh). This paper reports the results of a double-anonymous dictator experiment designed to permit the emergence of basic gender differe...

Objective It is generally believed that professional drivers can manage quite severe fatigue before routine driving performance is affected. In addition, there are results indicating that professional drivers can adapt to prolonged night shifts and may be able to learn to drive without decreased performance under high levels of sleepiness. However, very little research has been conducted to com...