by Editor | Sep 28, 2015 | Girls, Menarche
Guest Post by Dr. Jerilynn C. Prior, UBC, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research 16-year-old Jody is anxious to talk to someone. This is what she wants to say: “My period is out of whack! I never know when it is coming. I only get it a few times a year. ....
by Editor | Sep 24, 2015 | Girls, Menarche
Guest Post by Suzan Hutchinson Do you remember being seven years old? Engage your imagination for a few minutes and try re-entering your seven-year-old world. Remember what fun life was. Recall what grade you were in, and what you enjoyed about school. Reconnect with...
by Editor | Sep 21, 2015 | Girls, Menarche, Motherhood
Guest Post by Sheryl Mendlinger, PhD The impetus of my research on menstruation started many years ago when my daughter Yael was in her teens in the 1990s, and came home from school and told me that her friends said, “If you use tampons you could lose your virginity.”...
by Laura Wershler | Sep 8, 2015 | Girls, Menarche, Menorrhagia
Guest Post by Dr. Lara Briden, ND The onset of menstruation (menarche) is an important time for girls. It heralds their future fertility, of course, but it’s much more than that. Menarche is also when girls start to make female hormones for the first time. Making...
by Laura Wershler | Aug 6, 2015 | Activism, FemCare, Girls, Menstruation
#SMCR 2015 Plenary Session Video Presentation: “Menstrual health is like the rhino for ecology, it’s the thing that if we get wrong the whole ecosystem fails. And if we get menstrual health wrong the social ecosystem fails.” Menstrual Hygiene...
by Editor | May 22, 2015 | Activism, Fertility, Film, Girls, Menarche, Menstruation
Menstrual Education perspectives from around the world will be presented in two concurrent sessions at the 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research at The Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights, June 4-6, 2015, Suffolk University,...
