by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 1, 2010 | Health Care, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research, Sex
POZ magazine and poz.com claim to be the leading publication and website in the U.S. about HIV/AIDS. The March 2010 issue has a great article by Suzanne Bopp about menstruation, menopause, and HIV. As with medical and cultural knowledge about HIV itself, understanding...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 16, 2010 | Advertising, Anatomy, Menstruation, Objects
Asics footwear has developed a new running shoe that accommodates changes in women’s arches across the menstrual cycle. According to the Daily Mail, new research shows that changes in levels of estrogen affect flexibility and the height of the foot’s...
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 5, 2009 | Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Jerilynn Prior, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research As a clinician scientist with expertise in hormones and women’s health, I sit in Canada and look at the hype and dis-sing going on about “bio-identicals” in the USA and shake my head. If...
