Volume 7, Number 1 February 2010

EDITORIAL

• Father of the Genetic Code: Thoughts on the Life and Death of Marshall W. Nirenberg

  Marianne J. Legato, Founding Editor

NEWS & VIEWS FROM THE ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR GENDER MEDICINE

• From a Book to a New Society

  Marek Glezerman

COMMENTARY

• Slender, Older Women Appear to Be More Susceptible to Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease

  Edward D. Chan and Michael D. Iseman

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

• Gender Bias in Diagnosing Fibromyalgia

  James D. Katz, Gulnara Mamyrova, Olena Guzhva, and Lena Furmark

• Hospitalizations for HIV/AIDS: Differences Between Sexes

  Altacílio Aparecido Nunes, Igor Mariano de Melo, Ana Laura Alves da Silva, Leandro dos Santos de Araújo Rezende, Paulo Bettero Guimarães, and Mario Leon Silva-Vergara

• Parental Mortality Rates in a Western Country After the Death of a Child: Assessment of the Role of the Child’s Sex

  Jessica Werthmann, Luc J.M. Smits, and Jiong Li

• Pattern of Sex Differences in Growth of Saudi Children and Adolescents

  Mohammad I. El Mouzan, Abdullah S. Al Herbish, Abdullah A. Al Salloum, Peter J. Foster, Ahmad A. Al Omar, Mansour M. Qurachi, and Tatjana Kecojevic

• Infant Male Sex as a Risk Factor for Shoulder Dystocia But Not for Cephalopelvic Disproportion: An Independent or Confounded Effect?

  Jayanton Patumanond, Chamaiporn Tawichasri, and Suthit Khunpradit

• Absence of Race- or Gender-Specific Income Disparities Among Full-Time White and Asian General Internists Working for the Veterans Administration

  William B. Weeks and Amy E. Wallace

CASE SERIES

• Reduced Estrogen in Menopause May Predispose Women to Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy

  Bruce T. Kuo, Rakesh Choubey, and Gian M. Novaro