by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 19, 2010 | Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Guest post by Jerilynn Prior, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research It’s been two weeks since Chris Hitchcock and I returned from San Diego’s recent Endocrine Society meetings. We are feeling incredibly happy with the success of our protracted, intense...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 14, 2010 | Media, Menopause, New Research, Newspapers
Since yesterday, although it seems longer, my RSS reader has been clogged with links to news reports about a UCSF study in which some women who lost weight found that their hot flashes diminished. Of course, that’s not what the headlines say. Here’s a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 8, 2010 | Birth Control, Dysmenorrhea, Girls, Health Care, Menorrhagia, New Research, Pharmaceutical
A new study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has found that adolescents are usually able to tolerate the Mirena® IUD rather well. The mean age of girls in this British study was 15.3 years, and they were prescribed the Mirena® for painful and/or...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 7, 2010 | Menopause, New Research, Sex
I hope my colleague Heather Dillaway feels at least at little vindicated when she reads this: A new study in the Journal of Health Psychology reports that social and psychological factors have the biggest influence upon women´s sexual behavior during menopause, rather...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 2, 2010 | Birth Control, Internet, Media, New Research
The Internet, especially the feminist blogosphere, is all abuzz this week with the promise of a new contraceptive pill for men within the next five years. But researchers always say a pill for men is just five years away, according to University of Washington medical...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 28, 2010 | Media, Menopause, New Research, Newspapers
Guest Post by Heather Dillaway, Wayne State University I keep seeing news articles about a “new Iranian study” that hopes to better predict “age at menopause” for women, and the authors of this study supposedly discovered a “blood test” that will be able to “predict...
