by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 10, 2009 | Advertising, FemCare, Internet
Obviously I’m spending waaay too much time on the interwebz these days. My elaborate system of RSS feeds, Twitter messages, email alerts, and random blog surfing just pointed me to a website called “Twirlit“, with the subtitle What Women Really Want....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 9, 2009 | Birth Control, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Holly Grigg-Spall, freelance writer (“Sweetening the Pill“) The popularity of the birth control pill is an essential element of our cultural attitude towards menstruation, and women’s bodies as a whole. After taking the pill for ten...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 5, 2009 | Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Jerilynn Prior, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research As a clinician scientist with expertise in hormones and women’s health, I sit in Canada and look at the hype and dis-sing going on about “bio-identicals” in the USA and shake my head. If...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 4, 2009 | Law/Legal, Menopause, Pharmaceutical
Even though the verdict regarding punitive damages awarded to Connie Barton in her suit against Prempro was sealed (as we wrote last week), the figure has leaked out. A Philadelphia jury awarded her $75 million in punitive damages, in addition to $3.7 million in...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 2, 2009 | Advertising, FemCare, magazines
Just when you think femcare ads can’t get any sillier . . . the new Always “Infinity” pad promises to “pull its own disappearing act”. Hmm . . . don’t we want pads to STAY where we PUT them?! Oh, it’s the “fluid”...
