by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 18, 2010 | Anatomy, New Research, Newspapers
Does taking the Pill increase the size of your brain? According to this story in The Daily Mail, you betcha. And it makes women more talkative, too. That’s right – brain scans of 28 women PROVE it. I know not to take too seriously such headlines in The...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 12, 2010 | Anatomy, Girls, Internet, Media, New Research, Newspapers
When the story that girls are reaching puberty earlier than ever began popping up everywhere this week, I did not doubt its veracity. It was no coincidence that I received an email from a friend yesterday, observing with mixed feelings that she had just purchased a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 14, 2010 | Media, Menopause, New Research, Newspapers
Since yesterday, although it seems longer, my RSS reader has been clogged with links to news reports about a UCSF study in which some women who lost weight found that their hot flashes diminished. Of course, that’s not what the headlines say. Here’s a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 28, 2010 | Media, Menopause, New Research, Newspapers
Guest Post by Heather Dillaway, Wayne State University I keep seeing news articles about a “new Iranian study” that hopes to better predict “age at menopause” for women, and the authors of this study supposedly discovered a “blood test” that will be able to “predict...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 25, 2010 | Birth Control, Health Care, Newspapers
The New York Times published an op-ed piece a few days ago about making the birth control pill available without a prescription. Kelly Blanchard, president of Ibis Reproductive Health, offers the following rationale: Women don’t need a doctor to tell them whether they...
by Laura Wershler | Jun 8, 2010 | Birth Control, Girls, New Research, Newspapers, Reproduction, Sex
Teen sex: More use rhythm method for birth control. It was an odd headline for an Associated Press story on the 86 page report on teen sexual activity just released by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Not all that relevant to the broader subject of the...
