by Laura Wershler | Oct 1, 2010 | Activism, Advertising, Communication, Health Care, magazines
It’s October again: breast cancer awareness month. Women’s magazines are featuring stories about breast cancer, charitable events all over North America are raising money for breast cancer research, and retailers are urging you to shop to cure breast...
by Laura Wershler | Sep 7, 2010 | Birth Control, Health Care, magazines, Media
It’s great to see celebrity sexpert Laura Berman, Ph. D. – frequent Oprah TV guest, Oprah radio host, and (according to her website) world renowned sex and relationship expert – talk truth about the effect of the birth control pill on women’s...
by Laura Wershler | Jun 14, 2010 | Communication, Menstruation, Radio
Tonight’s the night, Monday, June 14th, to tune in as CBC Radio airs Part One of: Seeing RED: A Cultural History of Menstruation. This two part documentary concludes next Monday, June 21st. If you miss the original broadcast, which you can listen to online at...
by Laura Wershler | Jun 8, 2010 | Birth Control, Girls, New Research, Newspapers, Reproduction, Sex
Teen sex: More use rhythm method for birth control. It was an odd headline for an Associated Press story on the 86 page report on teen sexual activity just released by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Not all that relevant to the broader subject of the...
by Laura Wershler | May 20, 2010 | Birth Control, Communication, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Philosophy
MenstruationResearch.org – Today, during an email exchange among the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research blogging team, research-advocacy experts on the menstrual cycle spoke out in response to the unbridled passion for the pill expressed by members of the...
