by Chris Hitchcock | Oct 12, 2012 | Hormones, Menopause, New Research, Perimenopause
What Happened? The highlight of last week’s meeting of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) meeting was a presentation of the primary results of the KEEPS study (Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study). A press release describing the findings, along with a list...
by Chris Hitchcock | Mar 13, 2012 | Menstruation, New Research, PMS
According to a recent study, women are best at picking out a picture with a snake during the days immediately before their period. You might think this would be a surprise, given the general idea of premenstrual compromise in women. Mind you, there isn’t much data to...
by Chris Hitchcock | Feb 1, 2012 | Birth Control, Health Care
Pfizer has announced that there was a mistake in packaging some of their generic oral contraceptive pills Lo/Ovral(R)-28 and Norgestrel/Ethinyl Estradiol Tablets. The mistakes seem to have been in the sequence of placebo (sugar pills) and perhaps in the...
by Chris Hitchcock | Jan 17, 2012 | Menarche, Menstruation
Last month I wrote about menarcheal age in Ethiopian girls, and that food insecurity leads to a delay in the onset of menstruation. This fits with the general response of the reproductive system to energetic stress – low energy leads to suppression of the...
by Chris Hitchcock | Dec 20, 2011 | Menarche, Menstruation, New Research
Many girls in Africa have insecure access to food, that is, they worry about getting enough food, and they sometimes eat less than they want, or go without food. There are two theories about how this might affect the onset of menstruation (menarche). One is that the...
