by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 29, 2010 | Birth Control, Health Care, Menopause, Menstruation, Music, PMS
That’s the report from this arts blogger at the New York Times. Yesterday, doctors from the Methodist Center for Performing Arts Medicine of the Methodist Hospital in Houston held a daylong symposium on the management of medical problems among musicians...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 26, 2010 | Health Care, New Research
Researchers in Italy have recently completed a study comparing the effectiveness of DNA testing for HPV (human papillomavirus) to the commonly used Pap smear for detecting cervical cancer. Their findings suggest that more cases of cervical cancer can be prevented with...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 25, 2010 | Anatomy, FemCare, New Research
Remember my rant about “vagina wash” back in November? No? I’ll wait while you read it. Anyway, it’s not just a political rant: there are new data that indicate that douching probably causes bacterial vaginosis. A research team studying the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 22, 2010 | Activism, Health Care, Law/Legal
It was 37 years ago today that the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, in which the Court held that a woman’s right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. In commemoration of that decision and women’s...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 18, 2010 | Health Care, Menorrhagia, New Research
Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal reports a new surgical technique for relief of uterine fibroids is currently being tested at six medical centers in the U.S., along with two in Mexico and one in Guatemala. Presently, the only sure cure is hysterectomy, because...
