by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 26, 2010 | Internet
Institute of Medicine (part of the National Academies) held a series of meetings on Assessing the Human Health Effects of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: An Institute of Medicine Workshop. Click the “Presentations” button (under “Other Meeting...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 19, 2010 | Internet
This week’s picks: The FDA declines to approve “pink Viagra”, a.k.a. flibanserin, to treat low female sexual desire. For more, check out these materials from the New View Campaign. In other FDA news, the organization’s Advisory Committee for...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 12, 2010 | Internet
The ladies at Evil Slutopia uncover the rigors of Cosmopolitan magazine’s investigative journalism techniques. Nursing in public: If it bothers you, put a blanket over YOUR head. The CDC recent released a report about medical conditions that may interfere with...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 5, 2010 | Internet
In case you missed these stories this week: Tasha Fierce takes on the whole concept of ‘feminine hygiene’: That Not-So-Fresh Feeling. Copyranter looks at the next ad in the Kitadol campaign. (See the previous ad for this PMS treatment here.) Proctor &...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 28, 2010 | Internet
Weekly reading for the last Saturday of May: Vanessa at Feministing discusses the FDA deliberations over Flibanserin, the purported “Viagra for women”, and dreads the marketing we’ll be subjected to if the product is approved. Reporting for The...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 21, 2010 | Internet
Heather Corinna on sexuality and disability. Strange ads for menstrual products. [via Glad Rags] If you’re on Twitter, you absolutely MUST follow FeministHulk. One in five American men between the ages of 18 and 29 believe having sex standing up prevents...
