by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 18, 2009 | Health Care, Law/Legal, Menopause, Pharmaceutical
You may have heard the news that 23 hormone replacement therapy lawsuits filed by women diagnosed with breast cancer were dismissed by a New York judge this week. Judge Martin Shulman granted Pfizer’s motion to dismiss for two reasons: the plaintiff’s...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 18, 2009 | Activism, Advertising, DIY, FemCare, Menstruation
*(I really did type “cosmetetical”. Readers under the age of 40 and/or outside the U.S. can find the origin of the term here.) Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Here’s where exploitation and menstrual activism crash into each other. ...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 17, 2009 | Birth Control, Disposable menstrual products, Health Care, New Research
The first known case of fatal TSS related to an IUD was recently reported recently. Here’s the abstract from the November 2009 Annals of Emergency Medicine (the full article is behind a subscription firewall): Toxic shock syndrome is a rare toxin-mediated...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 16, 2009 | Internet, Law/Legal, Media, Menopause, Pharmaceutical
That was Zoe Littlepage’s response to Pfizer’s request to a judge that her law firm remove this video press release about Pfizer’s malfeasance regarding cancer risk of Prempro, their menopause hormone therapy drug. The motion reads, in part,...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 16, 2009 | Activism, FemCare, Menstruation
Guest Post by Kaitlyn Elliott, The Cycle Sisters at St. Mary’s College of California 14 September 2009 A brief twenty-four hours ago we stormed campus, with 350 flyers and two rolls of packing tape in our collective hands. Detailed within are our intentions,...
