Cognitive testing on people undergoing transgender therapy is rare, but has happened on a few occasions. The Netherlands seem to be the source of much of this research. Van Goozen et al (1995) found differences in spatial and verbal ability in both female-to-male and male-to-female transsexuals after just three months on hormone therapy. Hulshoff ( Read more... )

As early as John Corso (1959), it has been documented that women tend to have more sensitive hearing than men, and have less variability in hearing sensitivity than men do. McFadden (1998) notes that not only are women more sensitive to noise, but that they also have stronger evoked otoacoustic emissions (EOAEs) (sounds produced by the inner ear, ( Read more... )

LaForest et al (2005) found that lower income, living in the country, and being female were all factors contributing to reduced quality of life during pollen season for people with seasonal allergies. Wieringa et al (1999) reported that as young children (ages 6-7) boys were more likely to be diagnosed with hay fever, but by the teen years (13-14 ( 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... )

Men's arteries are bigger than women's, even after correcting for height and weight, according to Osterweil (2007) on MedPageToday.com. Osterweil cites two articles from this month's issue of the journal Circulation (Milicent et al,2007; Andersen & Pepine, 2007) which examine gender differences in women's recovery from acute myocardial infarction ( Read more... )

Burnham et al (2003) found that men in current committed relationships (whether married or unmarried) had 21% lower saliva testosterone levels than single men. Gray et al (2004) confirmed these results, and found that this effect was more pronounced in afternoon and evening samples of testosterone levels than in morning samples. However, it is ( Read more... )

Anxiety about going to the dentist is very common, affecting as much as 7-10% of the population, according to Addex Pharmaceuticals, who are working on a new drug to control it. Liddell and Locker (1997) replicated previous findings that women and younger people had more anxiety about going to the dentist than men and older people. Their study ( Read more... )

Lidia Wasowicz, in a report on non-drug depression treatments for United Press International, quotes Jill Becker's complaint about many depression drug trials: In fact, most drug trials are designed to include both men and women, but do not include a large enough number of subjects to determine if there are differences between males and females in ( Read more... )

An Ohio State University survey (2006) found that body dissatisfaction manifests differently in men and women. Specifically, they found that women who accepted their bodies tended to eat healthier diets than those who did not. They also found that men were more likely to be concerned with putting on weight than taking it off. The survey ( Read more... )