by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 9, 2013 | Internet
Celebrity femcare flashback: Here’s Naomi Watts starring in a 1980s Australian Tampax ad. New research from Yale has identified genes related to aggressive endometrial cancer. Because Life Can’t Stop With A Period: An update on the fantastic work of Elizabeth...
by Heather Dillaway | Jan 3, 2013 | Communication, Media, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
Sometimes I think biomedical researchers and media spokespersons are just searching to find the pathology in our lives. Not that we don’t know this already, especially when it comes to women’s health. Because of how medicalization works, of course anything that...
by Paula Derry | Dec 10, 2012 | Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
We are unique individuals. Or, we are like everyone else. Which is it? For menstrual periods and the menopausal transition, as perhaps for most things, we’re a little bit of both. For me, keeping in mind that both are somehow true, and understanding the ways in which...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 17, 2012 | Internet
U.S. readers, what did you think of the “Menzies” episode of New Girl? We’ve been discussing it on our Facebook page. In the clip at right, Winston reveals his sympathy PMS to Schmidt. How a pregnancy test can reveal you have cancer. The exact cause...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 24, 2012 | Hormones, New Research, Newspapers, PMS
If PMS is a myth, then what on earth can we blame for all the lady-rage? You may have seen the article in The Star or The Globe and Mail or The Atlantic about the recently published research review by a team of medical researchers who assert that “clear evidence for a...
