by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 9, 2013 | Internet
Celebrity femcare flashback: Here’s Naomi Watts starring in a 1980s Australian Tampax ad. New research from Yale has identified genes related to aggressive endometrial cancer. Because Life Can’t Stop With A Period: An update on the fantastic work of Elizabeth...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 1, 2012 | Internet
Gilda’s Club, a cancer support group in Madison, Wisconsin, named for the late, great Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer at age 42 in 1989, is changing its name, because young women don’t know who Gilda Radner was. This makes me sad on so many...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 14, 2014 | Internet
Last week marked the 49th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut, which made it no longer a crime to obtain birth control — at least for married couples. Rolling Stone identifies five places in the U.S. where contraception is just as...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 23, 2013 | Internet
U.S. television personality Amy Robach got a mammogram on the air and chose to have a double mastectomy based on the results, but there’s another side to the story — both in terms of the inferences made to other women and in terms of journalism ethics. Speaking...
by Laura Wershler | Feb 6, 2013 | Activism, Amenorrhea, Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Health Care, Hormones, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical
Author’s Update, February 14, 2013: As clarified by Bedsider.org in the comments section below, the Works Like A Charm Contest mentioned in this post is not current but ended in 2011. The contest website pages are now inactive. If Bedsider.org sponsored a...