by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 23, 2009 | Birth Control, Girls, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Holly Grigg-Spall, freelance writer (“Sweetening the Pill“) In the summer of this year, I was researching for a feature for Easy Living magazine on the potential side effects of the birth control pill and when searching for a news hook for...
by Laura Wershler | Dec 22, 2009 | Activism, Advertising, Birth Control, Girls, Health Care, Language, magazines, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical
In a December 21, 2009 news release the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) proclaimed that “hormonal contraceptives offer benefits beyond pregnancy prevention“. You’d have to be an ostrich with her head in the sand not to have...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 18, 2009 | Health Care, Law/Legal, Menopause, Pharmaceutical
You may have heard the news that 23 hormone replacement therapy lawsuits filed by women diagnosed with breast cancer were dismissed by a New York judge this week. Judge Martin Shulman granted Pfizer’s motion to dismiss for two reasons: the plaintiff’s...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 17, 2009 | Birth Control, Disposable menstrual products, Health Care, New Research
The first known case of fatal TSS related to an IUD was recently reported recently. Here’s the abstract from the November 2009 Annals of Emergency Medicine (the full article is behind a subscription firewall): Toxic shock syndrome is a rare toxin-mediated...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 11, 2009 | Girls, Health Care, Law/Legal, New Research, Pharmaceutical
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...
by Laura Wershler | Dec 10, 2009 | Birth Control, Health Care, Media, Menarche, Menopause, Menstruation, Newspapers, Ovulation
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...
