- Have you had a pap smear recently? Listen to the pap rap, then schedule a smear.
- A new study of diagnostic practices for assessing PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder) finds that only only 18.4% of physicians reported regular use of any type of daily symptom monitoring, and only 11.5% of physicians in the sample reported routinely using the 60-day symptom monitoring that is recommended.
- The families of women who have died as a result of the NuvaRing have started a website to track risks, benefits, reports of claims, and other information about the birth control device.
- You may feel like your bra is killing you, but that just means it’s the wrong size: wearing a bra does NOT cause breast cancer.
- Menstruation Barbie rules Instagram.
- Our own Chris Bobel shines in a staged debate at MoMA on Sputniko!’s attention-getting Menstruation Machine and whether design can help us be more empathetic beings.
- Kegels: Are you doing them wrong?
- Aren’t we all tired of vajayjay? Lesley Kinzel gives us nine historic euphemisms to replace it.
- Researchers find higher incidences of stress, impulsivity, and Internet Use Disorder among women with PMDD than women who do not have PMDD.
- “I think that ‘period’ is going to be my ‘surfboard’, says Lily Allen about why radio stations won’t play her new song Sheezus.
- Good advice for teen girls, and grown-up girls, too: why masturbating is empowering for young women.
- The FDA warns that laparoscopic power morcellation, a technique used to remove uterine fibroids by grinding and shredding the tissue so that it can be removed through a small incision in the abdomen, may inadvertently spread cancer.
- At Quora, Suzanne Sadedin of Monash University provides a plausible answer to the enduring evolutionary mystery of why women menstruate. [Quora is a free subscription site, but you’re permitted to read one article without creating an account.]
