by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 11, 2011 | New Research
A special issue of the scholarly journal Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal has just been published, featuring several pieces about menstruation, media representation, and the ways we talk about it. You can see the table of contents here, as well as...
by Chris Hitchcock | Dec 9, 2010 | Menstruation
Apparently in the US the Republicans are advocating that the general public be given the opportunity to comment on the usefulness or suitability of publicly funded research. While on the face of it this might not seem to be related to menstruation research, it allows...
by Heather Dillaway | Oct 11, 2010 | Activism, Art, New Research
19th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Chatham University June 2, 2011 – June 4, 2011 The 19th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research (SMCR) will be hosted in Pittsburgh’s East End at the Woodland Campus of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 30, 2010 | Health Care, New Research
I’m too swamped at work to write a proper review of this book-length report this week, but re:Cycling readers might like to know that the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (BPH) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are releasing a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 11, 2010 | Anatomy, Dysmenorrhea, FemCare, Menarche, Menstruation, New Research
In a controlled study of 268 Australian women with surgically confirmed moderate-to-severe endometriosis (cases) and 244 women without endometriosis (controls), researchers found that characteristics of a woman’s early menstrual cycles were associated with later...
