The “Choosing Wisely” Campaign: Don’t Routinely Test for Osteoporosis Until Age 65
On June 13, 2012, the medical website Medscape posted an interview with the president of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) on AAFP’s involvement with the “Choosing Wisely” campaign. “Choosing Wisely,” according to the article, is an initiative of the...
Uteruses, Vaginas, and More Weekend Links
Those lovely images at right are life-sized replicas of a non-menstruating uterus and a menstruating uterus, called Wombs for Wisdom, hand-made by Megan Assaf. Contact her for more information if you'd like your own set. Do women prefer more complex music around...
Sorry, You’ll Never Get the Good Blood…
How do you tell a preschool-aged boy that he’ll never menstruate? I thought I was doing a great thing. Ever since my daughter was born I’ve spun a positive story about menstruation for her. Even when she was 2 and 3 years old I’d tell her it was the “good blood,” the...
Adventures in Building a Fertility Awareness Charting App
I’m obsessed with fertility charting, and in my search for a Fertility Awareness app that met my needs, my husband and I created one. The most important thing to us are our users, and their feedback is gold. We learned the hard way that women want to chart on their...
Menstrual Sex — Well, Not Quite
Some months ago we published a piece titled "Menstrual Sex: the Last Taboo in Advertising?" It was an analysis of a magazine ad for Softcups, a disposable menstrual collection cup, and it generated some interesting feedback. Some reader took exception to the...
Menstrual Huts, Metaforms, Movies, and More Weekend Links
Anthropologist Beverly Strassmann's research on the role of menstrual huts in the Dogon religion suggests that the practice of menstrual isolation may have developed as means to assure paternity -- or as the popular press has been covering the story, to prevent wives...
