Ghostwritten articles funded by Wyeth overstated benefits and downplayed harms
An open-access article published in PLOS Medicine yesterday, Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, associate professor in the Department of Physiology at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC, presents an article describing the ways in which the pharmaceutical...
Last Year’s P***y
Not being a subscriber to Cosmopolitan, I didn't see the cover of the current issue until I was standing in the check-out line at my local Albertson's on Tuesday evening. I didn't want to contribute to Hearst's profits by purchasing the issue and I didn't have time to...
Libido and the Pill
It's great to see celebrity sexpert Laura Berman, Ph. D. - frequent Oprah TV guest, Oprah radio host, and (according to her website) world renowned sex and relationship expert - talk truth about the effect of the birth control pill on women's libido. In the September...
Hate ‘moisture’? You’ll love these.
Guest Post by Chella Quint, Adventures in Menstruating So Johnson & Johnson’s Canadian division’s just launched a new Stayfree campaign that I found out about when a Toronto reporter contacted me for an article she was writing. The campain is a series of viral...
Weekend Links for a Labor-free Weekend
How did September sneak in here?!? I wasn't finished with August. Do you miss Sarah Haskins as much as we do? Listen to her talk about pregnancy and the Apocalypse. Melissa McEwan tells it like it is: Grown-ups aren't embarrassed to buy tampons. Even when they're for...
Are You Too Physically Fit for Motherhood?
The headline of a story at ABC news about infertility among female athletes is "Female Athletes Are Too Fit To Get Pregnant". Many women athletes in their 20s, at peak performance levels and peak physical fitness by most measures, may find themselves unable to...
