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Fairfield and Fletcher's 2002 review of vitamin benefits and risks states that vitamin A is critical for night vision, but in doses as small as 3x the RDA, can cause birth defects. Katz et al (1995) found that night blindness was prevalent among lactating and pregnant Nepalese women, which they attributed to vitamin A deficiency, although Wedner ( Read more... )

The Local (3/1/07) reports that Carina Bladh (Linköping, Sweden) was outraged to discover that her car insurance premium jumped up when her official sex changed from female to male. After her complaint, the insurer decided to lower her premium back to its prior level. According to Esurance's website (2007), in the U.S., gender only figures into ( Read more... )

Researchers at Purdue University (2007) report that age and gender may have significant effects on the severity of injuries sustained in a car crash. The research, published in The Journal of Safety Research (Islam & Mannering, 2006) was based on Indiana traffic data from 1999. The authors suggest that vehicles designed to adapt to the specific ( Read more... )

An article in the UK's Times(11/25/06) claims that "there will be fewer differences between the sexes in the future." The article is part of a series ("Gender Fender", 11/22/06; "Speed Camera expose gender gap", 11/22/06) inspired by Corbett and Caramlau (2006), whose study of 1995 vs. 2003 attitudes towards speed cameras found substantial gender ( Read more... )