by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 10, 2010 | Internet
This week’s recommended reading: Is your period late? Or are you just counting days incorrectly? Heather Corrina @Scarleteen explains. (For more about how to track your cycle, CeMCOR offers Structured Daily Diary forms, and how-to instructions.) You’re not...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 5, 2010 | Advertising
This catalog showed up in my office mailbox today. Do I need to say any more than Think Before You Pink? In other breast cancer news, Rachel at Our Bodies, Our Blog has a good summary (with lots of links) of the recently announced federal court decision to invalidate...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 3, 2010 | Internet
A few recommended reads: Lunapads queries the fence-sitters: Women tell why they’ve hesitated to use cloth pads for a chance to win free Lunapads. Heather Corinna explains how manipulating menstruation can mess with contraceptive effectiveness, if not done...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 2, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, magazines, Menstruation
One of my Women’s & Gender Studies graduates, who is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Gender & Sexuality Studies, recently sent me this Kotex ad from last fall. (She received it from one of her students — don’t you love how that chain works?) This ad...
by Chris Bobel | Mar 31, 2010 | Advertising, Menstruation, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Today, there’s a front page story in the New York Times about Astra-Zeneca’s move to market their cholesterol pills (known as statins, and as the NYT reports, already the most prescribed drugs in the US) at healthy people in spite of unresolved concerns...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 27, 2010 | Celebrities, Humor, Menstruation, Television
I’m surely not the only fan of Amy Poehler and Parks and Recreation around here, am I? (Oh, Amy Poehler, have you been reading my mail? Leslie Knope is more like me than I care to admit.) As I’ve written elsewhere, menstruation is seldom mentioned or...
