The Other Dangers of Yasmin and Yaz
Recently, in a piece for the Ms. Magazine blog, re:Cycling’s Elizabeth Kissling remarked on the lack of media coverage of serious safety issues with the popular birth control pill brands Yaz and Yasmin. Of the coverage there has been, little has looked beyond the...
Menstruation as a sensory and aesthetic experience
I recently attended the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research conference in New York and left the conference with some rekindled inspiration about the importance of seeing menstruation as a shared experience of feminist embodiment. Moreover, after leaving the...
“I can’t tell you how glad I am that you exist.”
“I can’t tell you how glad I am that you exist.” —Gloria Steinem on the SMCR. A few weeks ago the SMCR presented its first Making Menstruation Matter Award to Gloria Steinem at its biennial conference at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. The full video of...
Yaz and Yasmin: An Unacceptable Level of Risk?
Don’t feel bad if you missed last week’s headline news about the deaths of 23 young women from their birth control. It was a top story for CBC news and a few other Canadian sources, but it was barely a blip on the radar of most U.S. news outlets. Yaz and Yasmin, two...
Ethics in Wonderland: The SUPPORT Study
Arthur Caplan is a well-known ethicist, the head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. On June 11, 2013, Caplan posted an article called “Get real: No need to overdo risk disclosure” on the medical website Medscape....
The Trophy Wife Hypothesis and other theories — Weekend Links
Japan's health ministry has issued a nationwide notice, withdrawing the recommendation of HPV vaccines for girls due to adverse reactions. Suzan at PeriodWise wonders how the NFLs new rule that fans are permitted to bring only clear handbags into the stands for gams...
