by Laura Wershler | Mar 10, 2012 | Activism, Birth Control, Health Care, Menstruation, Politics, Religion/Spirituality, Reproduction, Sex
Research by SMCR members Tomi-Ann Roberts and Nicki Dunnavan garnered a lot of attention this week. Stories showed up at Live Science – Why Why Women Should Bring Their Periods ‘Out of the Closet, popular ladyblog Jezebel – Your Period Is a Time for Deep...
by Laura Wershler | Mar 7, 2012 | Activism, Amenorrhea, Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Communication, Dysmenorrhea, Health Care, Hormones, Menorrhagia, Menstruation, Ovulation, Pharmaceutical, PMS, Reproduction
Everybody can use a good map to help them get to where they’re going. Why not women heading to the land of non-hormonal contraception? In my post on January 11, 2012 I asked if coming off the pill was a growing trend. I proposed to write a series of posts about...
by Laura Wershler | Feb 24, 2012 | Activism, Birth Control, Girls, Menstruation, Ovulation, Reproduction, Sex
Guest Post by Lisa Leger Teen girls are getting pregnant, in part, because they don’t understand their menstrual cycles. It’s time for sexual health educators to step up and teach girls the primary sign of fertility. A recent report by The Centers for Disease Control...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 22, 2012 | Birth Control, magazines, Politics
In response to Rick Santorum’s recent assertion that birth control only costs “a few dollars” and therefore there shouldn’t be such a big fuss about denying insurance coverage, Mother Jones published a birth control calculator this week that...
by Chris Hitchcock | Feb 1, 2012 | Birth Control, Health Care
Pfizer has announced that there was a mistake in packaging some of their generic oral contraceptive pills Lo/Ovral(R)-28 and Norgestrel/Ethinyl Estradiol Tablets. The mistakes seem to have been in the sequence of placebo (sugar pills) and perhaps in the...
by Laura Wershler | Jan 20, 2012 | Birth Control, Communication, Dysmenorrhea, Health Care, Menstruation, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Is there a woman over the age of 18 anywhere who doesn’t know that taking the birth control pill can make her periods lighter and less painful? Most women know this, but not many know why. The news stories swirling around a new study about the pill and period pain...
