by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 25, 2009 | Birth Control, magazines, Menstruation, Ovulation, Pharmaceutical
re:Cycling readers may be interested in this story in the current issue of Macleans about the declining interest in oral contraceptives among Canadian women, particularly among women in their 20s who’ve been using The Pill for a decade. [O]ral contraceptive...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 24, 2009 | Advertising, FemCare, magazines, Menstruation
Looks like our friends at Always Infinity have ditched the skinny model,* but everything else in the ad is the same, right down to the copy about a disappearing act and the close-up shot of magic blue fluid. That pad still looks disproportionately large to me: its...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 23, 2009 | Law/Legal, Menopause, Pharmaceutical
There are more than 10,000 lawsuits against Wyeth/Pfizer regarding the link between PremPro and breast cancer. There have been 12 verdicts so far, and juries have awarded money to the plaintiffs in ten of those cases. The latest was announced today, in Donna Kendall...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 22, 2009 | FemCare, Internet, Men
I’m guessing many re:Cycling readers are familiar with Frank Warren’s Post Secret project. Every Sunday, Frank publishes online a collection of confessional postcards he’s received. He’s also curated several larger collections into best-selling...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 20, 2009 | Advertising, FemCare, Humor, Menstruation
Concealing menstruation is always a chore, but especially when your boyfriend is a vampire. Twilight Cycles from Brandon Routh [via Glad...
