by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 5, 2010 | Birth Control, Health Care, Law/Legal, Pharmaceutical
An Oklahoma City news program prepared this investigation about health risks of Bayer’s best-selling birth control pill, YAZ, with dramatic personal stories. The video cannot be embedded here, but you can watch it and read the news story here. Previous...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 27, 2010 | Menstruation, New Research
Guest Post by Kitty Holman Make no mistake, there are some women who absolutely love to shop. And why not? Shopping has long been described as being a therapeutic activity because it has the uncanny ability to lift the spirit. After all, bringing home a new pair of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 24, 2010 | Internet
Here’s a sample of our late October reading: Researchers at University of Calgary discuss why monkeys don’t go through menopause. Tracy Clark-Flory considers the Wall Street Journal‘s report about women who don’t consistently take their birth...
by Heather Dillaway | Oct 21, 2010 | Menopause, New Research, Newspapers, Pharmaceutical
Yes, the hormone therapies prescribed for women in perimenopause and beyond have already been suspect. Especially after the initial Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trial results in 2002 (but even before that), researchers documented the health risks associated with...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 20, 2010 | Activism, Menstruation
Today is Love Your Body Day, a program instigated by NOW to counter the media-fostered ideal of slender, white, long-haired, able-bodied, perpetually happy femininity. We here at re:Cycling are all about self-love, Health At Every Size, and fat acceptance, but...
