by Laura Wershler | May 17, 2010 | Birth Control, Men, New Research, Pharmaceutical, Reproduction
You know how most superheros become superheros because of exposure to some weird, intensified chemical or element? Take Peter Parker’s spider bite for example. According to a story reported in various media, including International Planned Parenthood...
by Chris Hitchcock | Apr 20, 2010 | Birth Control, Health Care, Menstruation, Ovulation, Pharmaceutical, Reproduction, Sex
It’s starting. With the approaching 50th anniversary of the birth control pill, there will be a flood of anniversary celebrations and reviews of birth control methods. Which is good. We should have those discussions more often. Just say “no” (on the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 5, 2010 | New Research, Reproduction
When new moms are sometimes forgetful or spacey, it is often attributed to ‘baby brain’ or ‘mumnesia’ or some other clever appellation that reinforces the idea that pregnancy leads to memory loss. It’s another variation on the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 2, 2010 | Anatomy, Communication, Internet, New Research, Newspapers, Ovulation, Reproduction
There’s been quite a bit of internet buzz during the last week or so about a study conducted at University of St Andrews and Edinburgh University by Tom Kelsey, in which he and his colleagues develop a computer model of how a woman’s supply of eggs...
by Chris Bobel | Jan 28, 2010 | Reproduction
As of Feb 8th, freelance writer, re:Cycling guest blogger, and oral contraception watchdog Holly Grigg-Spall (check out her blog “Sweetening the Pill”) will join the Bitch magazine blog team. She will opine on women’s reproductive health—news...
by Chris Bobel | Nov 7, 2009 | Birth Control, Language, New Research, Ovulation, Reproduction
Guest Post by Moira Howes, Trent University Over thirty years ago, Roger V. Short argued that regular menstrual cycling is probably a health hazard and thus, we should try to “keep the ovaries and the female reproductive tract in a state of quiescence when...