by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 24, 2010 | Internet
In case you missed these stories of the week: At Scarleteen, Emira Mears dismisses eight myths about cloth menstrual pads. Excellent essay by Holly Grigg-Spall about the Pill and medicalization of women’s bodies. When is someone gonna give that woman a book...
by Chris Hitchcock | Apr 23, 2010 | Menopause, Menstruation, New Research, Newspapers
Recently the New York Times published a long article entitled the Estrogen Dilemma. It’s an article rich with many issues, and previous blogs have critiqued its uncritical acceptance of the timing hypothesis, and its failure to distinguish between the transient...
by Chris Hitchcock | Apr 23, 2010 | Anatomy, Menstruation, New Research
When I was pregnant and then learning to breast-feed my daughter, my doula told me that breast milk had great anti-biotic properties, and that it was good to use on eye-infections and cuts. Turns out that there is science behind that. Not only that, but now scientists...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 22, 2010 | Birth Control, Disposable menstrual products, Menstruation, New Research, Pharmaceutical
So here’s an odd little study: when women are given a choice between oral contraceptives and the contraceptive vaginal ring, what characteristic is most highly correlated with a slightly greater interest in using the vaginal ring? If you said “tampon...
by Laura Wershler | Apr 20, 2010 | Birth Control, Newspapers, Pharmaceutical, Philosophy
I read The Birth-Control Riddle by Melinda Beck, published today in The Wall Street Journal with interest and frustration. As a veteran pro-choice sexual and reproductive health advocate, I’ve spent decades contemplating this “riddle”. I have two specific...
