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 11, 2010 | Menorrhagia, Menstruation, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Nearly a year ago, we shared news of FDA approval of tranexamic acid tablets as treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding. Today we learned of successful clinical trials of the drug this purpose: The current issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology includes the results of a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 30, 2010 | Health Care, New Research
I’m too swamped at work to write a proper review of this book-length report this week, but re:Cycling readers might like to know that the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (BPH) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are releasing a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 19, 2010 | New Research, Pharmaceutical, PMDD, PMS
Some of you may recall that in my book, Capitalizing on the Curse, I argued that the addition of PMDD to the DSM-IV and the re-branding of fluoxetine HCI as Sarafem are linked. It was no coincidence that pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly sought a unique FDA...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 10, 2010 | Dysmenorrhea, Girls, Menstruation, New Research
A new study published in the Journal of Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology reports on a study of how dysmenorrhea affects girls’ relationships with families and friends and school performance for girls in Turkey. Previously, we reported on research documenting that...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 30, 2010 | Advertising, Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Longtime readers may recall that late last year, the New York Times published an essay about how hard Big Pharma has worked to market menopause as an estrogen deficiency disease. Despite that exposé and others of the well-documented risks and limited benefits of...
