by Heather Dillaway | Sep 13, 2010 | Activism, Advertising, Menopause
September is Menopause Awareness Month. If you do a web search on “Menopause Awareness Month,” the first things that pop up are about hormone therapies, pain, cramps, eye floaters, and other terrible symptoms that should probably be commemorated this month….or maybe...
by Chris Hitchcock | Sep 8, 2010 | Menstruation
An open-access article published in PLOS Medicine yesterday, Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, associate professor in the Department of Physiology at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC, presents an article describing the ways in which the pharmaceutical...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 30, 2010 | Advertising, Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Longtime readers may recall that late last year, the New York Times published an essay about how hard Big Pharma has worked to market menopause as an estrogen deficiency disease. Despite that exposé and others of the well-documented risks and limited benefits of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 10, 2010 | Language, Menstruation
Guest post by Anastacia Kurylo, Marymount Manhattan College It’s been four years since I had my period. I did get a visit from my ‘friend’ for six months a couple of years ago but considering that I menstruated regularly for nearly twenty years before that six months...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 19, 2010 | Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Guest post by Jerilynn Prior, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research It’s been two weeks since Chris Hitchcock and I returned from San Diego’s recent Endocrine Society meetings. We are feeling incredibly happy with the success of our protracted, intense...
