by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 13, 2009 | Advertising, Law/Legal, Media, Menopause
There’s a pretty good essay in this weekend’s New York Times (online here Saturday, in print Sunday in the Business section) about how hard Big Pharma has worked to market menopause as an estrogen deficiency disease. In addition to discussion of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 11, 2009 | Girls, Health Care, Law/Legal, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Today I want to point to two important articles about women’s health from our friends at Women’s eNews: Yesterday, they published a story about Myriad Genetics and their firm grasp on the patents for diagnostics tests for BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 1, 2009 | Activism, DIY, Girls, Menstruation
In Rwanda, Harvard Business School Fellow Elizabeth Scharpf is breaking menstrual silence and challenging female poverty with the Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) program. SHE helps local women in developing countries “jump-start their own businesses to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 29, 2009 | DIY, Menstruation
For your seasonal pleasure, I bring you cloth menstrual pads decorated with Dia de los Muertos motifs (with thanks to Lisa, one of my Women’s & Gender Studies alumnae). These handmade pads are available at Etsy (of course!), either individually or as a set...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 8, 2009 | Internet, PMS
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College A lot of ideas get hatched in a bar over drinks with friends. Most don’t make it past the sober morning after. But a conversation in a Denver bistro in 2008 led to the creation of a new Internet service that...