by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 4, 2011 | Health Care, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Successful tests on rhesus monkeys are a long way from clinical trials on women, but this is interesting to those of us following the conversations and debates about cycle-stopping contraceptives: new research testing progestin antagonists indicates that the drug can...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 11, 2011 | New Research
A special issue of the scholarly journal Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal has just been published, featuring several pieces about menstruation, media representation, and the ways we talk about it. You can see the table of contents here, as well as...
by Chris Hitchcock | Feb 22, 2011 | Media, Menstruation, New Research
The NYT article title reads The threatening scent of fertile women. I’ve felt it for years, and I still haven’t quite figured out why I react this way to this kind of article. Certainly it echos the age-old misogynistic discomfort of learned men for their...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 16, 2011 | Dysmenorrhea, Menstruation, New Research
A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology reports that menstrual pain — like annoying noises and tedious computer tasks — hurts more in retrospect, if we anticipate experiencing it again: In the culminating field study of 180 women...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 7, 2011 | New Research, PMS
Given the variety of symptoms of PMS (more than 150), it’s not surprising that no single treatment is effective for all cases, or that women would seek remedies in alternative medicine. A new review of 30 years of literature on herbal remedies sought to discover...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 27, 2011 | Anatomy, Menstruation, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Emily Swan, Marymount Manhattan College With the military’s history of suppressing minority groups, its new effort to conceal and terminate menstruation comes as no surprise. Hopefully, the menses will be able to come out of the closet soon enough. I...
