by Heather Dillaway | Mar 1, 2012 | Communication, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
The results are in: if you talk to your friends more during menopause, then your menopausal symptoms will bother you less. A study reported in The Telegraph last week suggests that talking either lessens women’s symptoms or helps them cope better (or both). In one...
by Laura Wershler | Jan 20, 2012 | Birth Control, Communication, Dysmenorrhea, Health Care, Menstruation, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Is there a woman over the age of 18 anywhere who doesn’t know that taking the birth control pill can make her periods lighter and less painful? Most women know this, but not many know why. The news stories swirling around a new study about the pill and period pain...
by Alexandra Jacoby | Jan 19, 2012 | Menstruation, New Research
I read a blog post about a paper (that I have not read). The post is “Why do women menstruate?” by PZ Myers, a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris, blogging at Pharyngula. The paper is “The evolution of...
by Chris Bobel | Dec 26, 2011 | Menarche, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
What happens when get a bunch of interdisciplinary menstrual cycle researchers together and give them each a topic or two and a word count? You get a pithy document called “The Menstrual Cycle: A Feminist Lifespan Perspective” available to anyone who needs to...
by Chris Hitchcock | Dec 20, 2011 | Menarche, Menstruation, New Research
Many girls in Africa have insecure access to food, that is, they worry about getting enough food, and they sometimes eat less than they want, or go without food. There are two theories about how this might affect the onset of menstruation (menarche). One is that the...
by Chris Hitchcock | Nov 22, 2011 | Language, Menopause, New Research
Recently Heather Dillaway blogged about the challenges and frustrations of naming, and this blog continues with that theme, looking at a recent article about increased rates of “ovarian failure” following ovary-preserving hysterectomy. “Ovary-saving...
