by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 16, 2010 | Girls, magazines, Menarche
Anyone else seen the premier issue of Whore! Magazine (Fast, Feminist, and Feminine) yet? My copy arrived yesterday and while I haven’t read the whole thing yet, I’m enjoying the quality of the writing and the production values. I’m also pleased to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 14, 2010 | Media, Menopause, New Research, Newspapers
Since yesterday, although it seems longer, my RSS reader has been clogged with links to news reports about a UCSF study in which some women who lost weight found that their hot flashes diminished. Of course, that’s not what the headlines say. Here’s a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 10, 2010 | Internet
Woman’s Day magazine blog tackles myths of menopause: Part 1 and Part 2. Knitting Clio asks Should the Pill be Set Free from the Prescription? STI rates are higher among men who use erection dysfunction drugs (Viagra and Cialis) than among men who don’t,...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 8, 2010 | Birth Control, Dysmenorrhea, Girls, Health Care, Menorrhagia, New Research, Pharmaceutical
A new study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has found that adolescents are usually able to tolerate the Mirena® IUD rather well. The mean age of girls in this British study was 15.3 years, and they were prescribed the Mirena® for painful and/or...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 7, 2010 | Menopause, New Research, Sex
I hope my colleague Heather Dillaway feels at least at little vindicated when she reads this: A new study in the Journal of Health Psychology reports that social and psychological factors have the biggest influence upon women´s sexual behavior during menopause, rather...
