by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 10, 2010 | Language, Literature, Men, Menorrhagia, Menstruation, Religion/Spirituality
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Debates about Christianity’s attitudes toward women sometimes focus on Jesus’ relationship with Mary Magdalene and isolated engagements with other unnamed women encountered during his travels. Little...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 18, 2010 | Health Care, Menorrhagia, New Research
Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal reports a new surgical technique for relief of uterine fibroids is currently being tested at six medical centers in the U.S., along with two in Mexico and one in Guatemala. Presently, the only sure cure is hysterectomy, because...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 4, 2010 | Menorrhagia, Menstruation, Newspapers, Sex
Back in November, we commended a bold student columnist for taking on menstrual sex in the student paper at Chico State University. In yesterday’s edition of The Faster Times, a columnist advises a reader about how to broach the subject of period sex in a casual...
by Chris Hitchcock | Dec 24, 2009 | Birth Control, Dysmenorrhea, Health Care, Menorrhagia, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical, PMS
A recent press release from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announces that Hormonal Contraceptives Offer Benefits Beyond Pregnancy Prevention. This is in the same vein as similar articles published over the years about “non-contraceptive...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 3, 2009 | Communication, Dysmenorrhea, Health Care, Menorrhagia, Menstruation, New Research
A couple of months ago, we wrote about Kate Seear’s research findings that menstrual etiquette is a frequent cause of delayed diagnosis of endometriosis. In related news, medical researchers writing in a recent issue of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 14, 2009 | Menorrhagia, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical
The FDA announced yesterday that they have approved tranexamic acid tablets for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding, under the brand name Lysteda. According to the press release, approximately 3 million US women experience heavy bleeding, usually with no...