by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 8, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Media
One of my students just sent me this. I don’t think it’s recent — and it may even be a fake — but I’d never seen it before. I like it, even though the liquid is blue....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 2, 2010 | Internet
Elizabeth Scharpf’s outstanding work with SHE (Sustainable Health Enterprises) is featured today at Jezebel. The Toronto Sun reports on new research that indicates ovarian cancer may actually originate in the Fallopian tubes. Blogger Jayne Freeman writes about...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 30, 2010 | Health Care, New Research
I’m too swamped at work to write a proper review of this book-length report this week, but re:Cycling readers might like to know that the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (BPH) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are releasing a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 28, 2010 | Menstruation
The health and fitness web site Helium has recently posted some sound suggestions for coping with menstrual pain without drugs (personally, I’m a big fan of medication for pain but I know that not everyone is). They recommend exercises, iliopsoas stretches, and...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 25, 2010 | Internet
More evidence that “abortion trauma syndrome” is a political label, not a clinical one: new research finds that teens who have abortions are no more likely to experience depression or self-esteem problems than than those who keep the pregnancy. Jezebel...