by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 27, 2009 | Law/Legal, Menopause, Pharmaceutical
Connie Barton, an Illinois woman who developed breast cancer after taking Prempro for menopausal symptoms, was awarded punitive damages by a jury in Philadelphia yesterday. The jury has already awarded her $3.7 million in compensatory damages, back in September, but...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 25, 2009 | Menopause
We’re a week late in commemorating World Menopause Day here at re:Cycling. Sounds like a holiday right up there with Menstrual Monday, but it doesn’t sound very celebratory, from what I can discern. I discovered World Menopause Day, observed annually on...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 22, 2009 | Health Care
Our readers outside the U.S. may want to just skip over this post. I’ve been watching what passes for debate over health care reform in the U.S. for months now, and it’s making me increasingly cranky. I suppose I’ve known for years that political...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 20, 2009 | Health Care, New Research
When a link to this study, which found that the higher a patient’s BMI, the lower their physician’s respect for them, showed up in my Twitter feed yesterday (thanks, Michelle), I started connecting some dots. Women delay seeking treatment for menstrual...
by Chris Bobel | Oct 19, 2009 | Activism
Guest Post by Alexandra Jacoby, independent artist Since September 2000, I’ve been capturing a glimpse of women’s most private selves. So private that most women have not seen their own, much less others. I’ve been making vagina portraits. They are close-up,...
