A few things that crossed my screen during my week-long holiday:
- Drug companies are becoming expert at using social media to promote pharmaceutical products. Soon, the US FDA will issue guidelines for such usage.
- Current methods of screening for ovarian cancer have not significantly reduced death from the disease.
- Surveys of women in nine countries reveal that “a range of factors influence a woman’s choice of contraceptive”. D’oh.
- The strange case of the disappearing o.b. tampons.
- “I don’t have a 28-day menstrual cycle, and neither should you”: Anthropologist Kate Clancy on the mythology of the 28-day cycle.
