Weekend Links
Pfizer recalls ThermaCare HeatWraps menstrual product for safety concerns. October 3-9 is National Midwifery Week. Several good articles about pinkwashing and the monetization of breast cancer: Esther Steinfeld says Stop Using Our Diseases to Sell Your Products....
Dam Tampax
One of my students just sent me this. I don't think it's recent -- and it may even be a fake -- but I'd never seen it before. I like it, even though the liquid is blue.
Trying to Handle the Hype Around “Hot Flash Havoc”
Okay, I haven’t seen the film in full yet. And, yes, I’ll admit right up front that I’m not menopausal yet. And for many readers this may be enough to discount what I might say here, but…. I have interviewed quite a number of menopausal women in the last ten years...
Weekend Links
Elizabeth Scharpf's outstanding work with SHE (Sustainable Health Enterprises) is featured today at Jezebel. The Toronto Sun reports on new research that indicates ovarian cancer may actually originate in the Fallopian tubes. Blogger Jayne Freeman writes about her...
“Think Before You Pink”
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 cancer. Read...
News in Women’s Health Research
I'm too swamped at work to write a proper review of this book-length report this week, but re:Cycling readers might like to know that the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (BPH) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are releasing a pre-publication...
