by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 16, 2010 | Internet
Listen to this interview with Elizabeth Scharpf, CEO of Sustainable Health Enterprises (S.H.E.) about the project that lead to her winning the Curry Stone design prize. New guidelines from the New York State Department of Health on menstrual disorders in HIV-positive...
by Heather Dillaway | Oct 11, 2010 | Activism, Art, New Research
19th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Chatham University June 2, 2011 – June 4, 2011 The 19th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research (SMCR) will be hosted in Pittsburgh’s East End at the Woodland Campus of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 9, 2010 | Internet
Pfizer recalls ThermaCare HeatWraps menstrual product for safety concerns. October 3-9 is National Midwifery Week. Several good articles about pinkwashing and the monetization of breast cancer: Esther Steinfeld says Stop Using Our Diseases to Sell Your Products....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 8, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Media
One of my students just sent me this. I don’t think it’s recent — and it may even be a fake — but I’d never seen it before. I like it, even though the liquid is blue....
by Heather Dillaway | Oct 6, 2010 | Film, Independent Film, Media, Menopause
Okay, I haven’t seen the film in full yet. And, yes, I’ll admit right up front that I’m not menopausal yet. And for many readers this may be enough to discount what I might say here, but…. I have interviewed quite a number of menopausal women in the last ten years...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 2, 2010 | Internet
Elizabeth Scharpf’s outstanding work with SHE (Sustainable Health Enterprises) is featured today at Jezebel. The Toronto Sun reports on new research that indicates ovarian cancer may actually originate in the Fallopian tubes. Blogger Jayne Freeman writes about...