We didn’t have much on our radar to report last week, so this we’re trying to make up for it this weekend!
- Last Friday, Merck agreed to settle for $100 million with the thousands of claimants who have filed suit against their profitable contraceptive, NuvaRing. Claimants have alleged that Merck was not forthcoming enough about the drug’s side effects, including potentially fatal blood clots.
- We’re a little late to this free online course about International Women’s Health & Human Rights offered by Stanford University, but you can still join!
- Woman bravely decides to keep the baby weight. It’s satire, of course.
- A study just published in Behavioral Medicine confirms that dysmenorrhea (menstrual pain) interferes with quality and quantity of a menstruator’s sleep. Quelle surprise!
- Check out Dr. Jane Chi’s vulva rant on Twitter. She’s put it all on Storify so that you can read the heartbreaking thing in sequence, without interruption.
- Preliminary research from the National Cancer Institute indicates that women who reported daily aspirin use had a 20 percent lower risk of ovarian cancer than those who used aspirin less than once per week. But researchers aren’t yet ready to make to clinical recommendations.
- The Red Tent Sisters offer five natural birth control alternatives to hormonal options (such as the pill, the patch, or hormone-containing IUDs) in this video interview.
- A 25-year study of nearly 90,000 Canadian women “has added powerful new doubts about the value of [mammograms] for women of any age”, according to the New York Times. The study was published this week in the British Medical Journal, and can be accessed here.
- What’s wrong with TEDWomen talks? Jessica Valenti explains at The Nation: “TEDWomen co-host Kelly Stoetzel said that abortion did not fit into their focus on “wider issues of justice, inequality and human rights.” Oh.
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