Women’s Health News: Cancer Genes, HPV Vaccine
Today I want to point to two important articles about women's health from our friends at Women's eNews: Yesterday, they published a story about Myriad Genetics and their firm grasp on the patents for diagnostics tests for BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are known to...
Early menarche, late menopause and breast cancer – what’s the whole story?
Can having too many menstrual cycles give you breast cancer? That's what one might conclude from two unrelated articles that appeared in national newspapers this week. First was Nicholas D. Kristof's Op-Ed in the New York Times. Kristof had recently attended a...
Tampon Coating May Protect from Toxic Shock
Toxic shock syndrome is a potentially deadly complication of bacterial infection, resulting from Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria. It has been associated with the use of super-absorbent tampons (most notably, the infamous Rely brand in 1980), but other risk...
META: Email subscriptions to re:Cycling
It has come to my attention that there have been some problems with the automated email subscription feature of this site. If you have tried in the past to sign up for email notification of updates to re:Cycling and were unsuccessful, please try again. I think I have...
Taking Women’s Health Seriously
Here's one way that Canada shows some concern for risks to women's health: the owner of a New Brunswick health food store was fined $7500 for smuggling a progesterone-laced cream from the U.S. The cream, called Aim Renewed Balance, is purported "to help restore...
Recognizing the Vaginal Corona
Via the fabulous Scarleteen (best sex education resource on the web), I've just learned of the English translation of a remarkable booklet from Swedish Association for Sexuality Education: Vaginal corona: Myths surrounding virginity – your questions answered. The...
