Weekend Links
The National Women's Law Center issued the 2010 national and state-by-state report card on women's health, evaluating criteria such as percentage of women with health insurance, access to abortion providers, causes of death, frequency of annual mammograms and pap...
Public may be invited to comment on suitability of funded research projects
Apparently in the US the Republicans are advocating that the general public be given the opportunity to comment on the usefulness or suitability of publicly funded research. While on the face of it this might not seem to be related to menstruation research, it allows...
Mammography and the cycle – timing improves accuracy
According to this article in the journal Radiology, menstrual timing affects how sensitive screening mammography is. The authors analysed the results of screening mammographies collected as part of the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium. They used menstrual timing...
Long Live The Difference
The UK Daily Mail newspaper last week reported that a company in Norway required that its female employees wear a red bracelet when menstruating as a way to monitor the extra toilet breaks it is assumed they need at that time. Firstly, and aside from all the...
Weekend Links
Dysmenorrhea and constipation both occur more frequently in young women who skip breakfast, according to survey research published in December, 2010, issue of Appetite. Joan B. Wolf's new book, Is Breast Best?, argues that there is no scientific reason to prefer the...
Cup U
Vanessa Tolkin Meyer recently published her thesis film on Vimeo: it's a short film about the menstrual cup. It's also about attitudes toward menstruation and how we talk about it.
