by Chris Hitchcock | May 11, 2010 | Birth Control, Newspapers, Pharmaceutical
In an article in today’s Independent, Holly Grigg-Spall presents an alternative to the current celebrations of the pill. It’s an important message to add to the collective contemplation of what the pill has meant to women and to women’s lives, and...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 26, 2010 | Menstruation, Newspapers, Television
The Jamaica Observer has published a list of menstrual myths, apparently as a public service to its readers. Among the fallacies: Do not go to a funeral and look at the dead while having your period as this will cause your bones to rot. If a menstruating woman cans...
by Chris Hitchcock | Apr 25, 2010 | Birth Control, Books, magazines, Media, Newspapers, Pharmaceutical
This week was a big one for media coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Pill. And it looks like this is also being taken as an opportunity to reflect on women’s history over the past 50 years, which will also be a good thing. Women often lose our history, and...
by Chris Hitchcock | Apr 23, 2010 | Menopause, Menstruation, New Research, Newspapers
Recently the New York Times published a long article entitled the Estrogen Dilemma. It’s an article rich with many issues, and previous blogs have critiqued its uncritical acceptance of the timing hypothesis, and its failure to distinguish between the transient...
by Laura Wershler | Apr 20, 2010 | Birth Control, Newspapers, Pharmaceutical, Philosophy
I read The Birth-Control Riddle by Melinda Beck, published today in The Wall Street Journal with interest and frustration. As a veteran pro-choice sexual and reproductive health advocate, I’ve spent decades contemplating this “riddle”. I have two specific...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 19, 2010 | Menopause, New Research, Newspapers, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Jerilynn C. Prior, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research I just read “The Estrogen Dilemma” in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, and I feel like weeping—in sorrow and deep sadness. This article by Cynthia Gorney is about energetic,...
