by Paula Derry | Jun 24, 2013 | Health Care, Motherhood, New Research
Arthur Caplan is a well-known ethicist, the head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. On June 11, 2013, Caplan posted an article called “Get real: No need to overdo risk disclosure” on the medical website Medscape....
by Paula Derry | May 27, 2013 | Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
Articles in the media often report research results with a number, for example the number of hot flashes per day or the severity of menstrual cramps. However, these are not facts in the way that “man bites dog” would be a fact. In part, this is because the numbers...
by Paula Derry | Apr 29, 2013 | Communication, Motherhood, New Research
Research is often reported as though it is news, as though the most recent article is the best and research that was not published this year is somehow not as interesting or is out-of-date. I recently dug out some articles I wrote about the psychology of working...
by Paula Derry | Apr 1, 2013 | Health Care, Hormones, Media, Menopause, New Research
The Huffington Post published a story last week titled “Last Menstrual Cycle Could Be Predicted With New Model”. The story stated that a research study had just been published about a new method for predicting the end of menstruation in which researchers developed a...
by Paula Derry | Mar 4, 2013 | Menopause, Pharmaceutical, Sex
On February 26, 2013, the Food and Drug Administration issued a news release saying that it had approved a medication called Osphena to treat a problem called postmenopausal dyspareunia (pain during sexual intercourse associated with changes in the vagina after...
