by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 9, 2012 | Internet
Margie Profet is well known among membership of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, and lots of other folks, too: her controversial 1993 article in the Quarterly Review of Biology proposed an adaptive value of menstruation that attracted a lot of popular press...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 6, 2012 | Anatomy, Birth Control, Ovulation, Television
Guest Post by Lisa Leger Yesterday (June 4) on MSNBC-TV, my girl Rachel Maddow interviewed New York Times columnist Gail Collins, author of the new book, As Texas Goes. The book criticizes the state’s politics and morality laws and their impact on the rest of the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 5, 2012 | Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Leslie Botha, Broadcast Journalist It appears that women ages 27 to 45 in Canada are being subjected to the same type of Gardasil® advertising campaign adolescents and their families are in the United States. The full page advertisements are running...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 2, 2012 | Internet
Dr. Jen Gunter explains some of the reasons why women who do it at home die even when abortion is free and legal. Virginia Sole-Smith wrote a frank and touching post about endometrial cysts, and why it’s important to talk about these things. Margaret Cho longs...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 1, 2012 | Advertising, Anatomy, Language
My friend and colleague Patty Chantrill loves clever menstrual puns as much as I do, and recently snapped this picture of an area billboard from her car. I’ve edited the photo to try to highlight the sign, but there’s only so much one can do with a...
