What have you been doing with your weekends without the latest in menstruation and women’s health news to read?!?
- What you should know about (bi)cycling while (menstrual) cycling.
- o.b. tampons, a Johnson & Johnson product, has launched a new campaign to provide disposable menstrual products to girls in impoverished third-world nations.
- Ginger Snaps Back, another sequel to Ginger Snaps, “the film that so memorably (and graphically) approached lycanthropy as a metaphor for a young woman’s coming of age (and, perhaps more sensationally, the menstrual cycle)”, is now available at Netflix.
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is continuing its review of the potential increased risk of blood clots with the use of birth control pills containing drospirenone, such as Yaz, Yasmin, and BeYaz. The report and five appendices are online, and the FDA review will be presented and discussed at the joint meeting of the Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee on December 8, 2011.
