by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 14, 2010 | Birth Control, Internet
There are a number of web sites and mobile applications for tracking one’s cycle (such as MyMonthlyCycles.com) and for tracking PMS – either one’s own or someone else’s, as frequent guest contributor David Linton pointed out a few months ago....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 8, 2010 | Advertising, Birth Control
SMCR and re:Cycling‘s own Chris Hitchcock is featured in a menstrual suppression for-and-against article at MSN today. Chris explains why using hormonal contraceptives to stop periods is generally bad idea, except in very limited medical circumstances. Leslie...
by Chris Hitchcock | Dec 24, 2009 | Birth Control, Dysmenorrhea, Health Care, Menorrhagia, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical, PMS
A recent press release from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announces that Hormonal Contraceptives Offer Benefits Beyond Pregnancy Prevention. This is in the same vein as similar articles published over the years about “non-contraceptive...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 23, 2009 | Birth Control, Girls, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Holly Grigg-Spall, freelance writer (“Sweetening the Pill“) In the summer of this year, I was researching for a feature for Easy Living magazine on the potential side effects of the birth control pill and when searching for a news hook for...
by Laura Wershler | Dec 22, 2009 | Activism, Advertising, Birth Control, Girls, Health Care, Language, magazines, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical
In a December 21, 2009 news release the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) proclaimed that “hormonal contraceptives offer benefits beyond pregnancy prevention“. You’d have to be an ostrich with her head in the sand not to have...
