Yaz, Yasmin and Ortho Evra patch increase risk of blood clots
Blood clots are a serious, if rare, side-effect of hormonal contraceptives. If left untreated, clots can lead to debilitating, or fatal, strokes. The increased risk of blood clots in users of some hormonal birth control brands has been the subject of several recent...
Weekend Links
Learn to relieve menstrual cramps and low energy with the yoga pose, Baddha Konasana, with a video demonstration. [Note: You'll have to watch a commercial first.] New research from the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the University of California, Irvine finds that...
Pfizer to pay $72 Million in Philadelphia PremPro Case
Three women who developed breast cancer after their use of combination hormone therapy have been initially awarded $72 million by a jury in Philadelphia, with further judgement about punitive damages still to come. The case concerns the use of PremPro, a combination...
How do YOU define reproductive health?
Menstruation and menopause are reproductive health experiences, aren’t they? At least that’s what I think. But I’m starting to wonder how many people agree. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how people define the things they experience and how researchers define...
Menstrual Sex: The Last Taboo in Advertising?
For nearly a century, ads and other promotional materials for menstrual products have been based on claims that the pad, tampon or, more recently, cup or pill, would make it possible for women to participate in activities that their periods would otherwise have...
Osteoporosis Controversy, Transgender-friendly Gynecology, and other Weekend Links
Five guaranteed ways to start your period, from Dr. Jen Gunter (with tongue firmly in cheek). A new piece from the National Women's Health Network recommends NOT treating osteoporosis in healthy women, and that women under 65 avoid bone mineral density screening....
