Should Women Get Menstrual Leave?
A small article in the Toronto Observer (apparently published last week but just showing up in my RSS reader today) reports on the work of Yara Doleh, an independent scholar who recently presented a lecture titled "Menstruation and Stigma" at the Centre for Women’s...
Cover story in New York Magazine questions The Pill
Rare is the feature on women's health from a magazine hip to New York City's nightlife, dining, arts and entertainment. Within the past two months alone the magazine featured articles on the Julie Taymor Spiderman play, Jimmy Fallon and John Stewart. Not what one...
Painful Periods as Predictor of Endometriosis?
A cross-sectional study published in the November, 2010, issue of Fertility and Sterility reports that very painful menstrual periods during the teen years (that is, period pain so severe that girls miss school) may be predictive of an increased risk of developing...
Weekend Links
More about TSA "enhanced" scanners: GladRags published a letter this week from a customer whose flannel pantyliner led to a search of her genital area. Who writes health news? Maybe re:Cycling is more of a public service than I realized. An urban legend that just...
The Don’t Do Drugs
15 Dangerous Drugs Big Pharma Shoves Down Our Throats Alternet recently posted a list of the drugs most likely to make you sick. Writer Martha Rosenberg's '15 Dangerous Drugs Big Pharma Shoves Down Our Throats' contained some startling choices. Yaz is there, described...
Hormone Therapy and the Brain
So there's a surge today in news stories about how hormone treatment for menopause (popularly known as 'hormone replacement therapy' or HRT) benefits the brain, apparently based on publicity over this study published in Hormones and Behavior. In media interviews, the...
