by Laura Wershler | Dec 10, 2009 | Birth Control, Health Care, Media, Menarche, Menopause, Menstruation, Newspapers, Ovulation
Can having too many menstrual cycles give you breast cancer? That’s what one might conclude from two unrelated articles that appeared in national newspapers this week. First was Nicholas D. Kristof’s Op-Ed in the New York Times. Kristof had recently...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 25, 2009 | Birth Control, magazines, Menstruation, Ovulation, Pharmaceutical
re:Cycling readers may be interested in this story in the current issue of Macleans about the declining interest in oral contraceptives among Canadian women, particularly among women in their 20s who’ve been using The Pill for a decade. [O]ral contraceptive...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 9, 2009 | Birth Control, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Holly Grigg-Spall, freelance writer (“Sweetening the Pill“) The popularity of the birth control pill is an essential element of our cultural attitude towards menstruation, and women’s bodies as a whole. After taking the pill for ten...
by Chris Bobel | Nov 7, 2009 | Birth Control, Language, New Research, Ovulation, Reproduction
Guest Post by Moira Howes, Trent University Over thirty years ago, Roger V. Short argued that regular menstrual cycling is probably a health hazard and thus, we should try to “keep the ovaries and the female reproductive tract in a state of quiescence when...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 26, 2009 | Law/Legal, Newspapers, Pharmaceutical
The popular birth control pill, Yaz is in the news again. Readers may remember that last autumn, Bayer (the maker of Yaz) was sanctioned by the FDA for their television commercials, “because they encourage use of Yaz in circumstances other than those in which...
