by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 10, 2010 | Internet
This week’s recommended reading: Is your period late? Or are you just counting days incorrectly? Heather Corrina @Scarleteen explains. (For more about how to track your cycle, CeMCOR offers Structured Daily Diary forms, and how-to instructions.) You’re not...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 8, 2010 | Anatomy, Menstruation, Sex
As a native of the midwestern U.S., I know very little about sushi. (Much of it looks like what we call “bait” back in Indiana.) So I did not know that very few women prepare sushi in restaurants. This piece in Toronto Life explains why not: Women’s hands...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 6, 2010 | Law/Legal, Philosophy
Guest Post by Barbara A. Brenner Executive Director, Breast Cancer Action One of the saddest aspects of capitalism is that companies think they can and should own anything they get their hands on. Some time ago, they started obtaining patents on human genes, including...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 5, 2010 | Advertising
This catalog showed up in my office mailbox today. Do I need to say any more than Think Before You Pink? In other breast cancer news, Rachel at Our Bodies, Our Blog has a good summary (with lots of links) of the recently announced federal court decision to invalidate...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 3, 2010 | Birth Control, Menstruation, New Research, Pharmaceutical
We’ve mentioned Yaz and its sister drug Yasmin before, and our friend Holly Grigg-Spall tracks the progress of complaints against them and other oral contraceptives. Yaz and Yasmin were Bayer’s top-selling drugs in 2008, bringing in about $1.8 billion, a 17...
