by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 8, 2010 | Anatomy, magazines, Media
Not being a subscriber to Cosmopolitan, I didn’t see the cover of the current issue until I was standing in the check-out line at my local Albertson’s on Tuesday evening. I didn’t want to contribute to Hearst’s profits by purchasing the issue...
by Laura Wershler | Sep 7, 2010 | Birth Control, Health Care, magazines, Media
It’s great to see celebrity sexpert Laura Berman, Ph. D. – frequent Oprah TV guest, Oprah radio host, and (according to her website) world renowned sex and relationship expert – talk truth about the effect of the birth control pill on women’s...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 5, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Internet, Media, Menstruation
Guest Post by Chella Quint, Adventures in Menstruating So Johnson & Johnson’s Canadian division’s just launched a new Stayfree campaign that I found out about when a Toronto reporter contacted me for an article she was writing. The campain is a series of viral...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 2, 2010 | Amenorrhea, Health Care, Media, Menstruation
The headline of a story at ABC news about infertility among female athletes is “Female Athletes Are Too Fit To Get Pregnant“. Many women athletes in their 20s, at peak performance levels and peak physical fitness by most measures, may find themselves...
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...
