Weekend Links to Wrap Up 2010

A few things that crossed my screen during my week-long holiday: Drug companies are becoming expert at using social media to promote pharmaceutical products. Soon, the US FDA will issue guidelines for such usage. Current methods of screening for ovarian cancer have...

Weekend Links

Menstruation and blood symbolism in The Black Swan. Ovulating women don’t want to talk with their fathers, according to new research published in Psychological Science. Via CopyRanter, a billboard ad for maxi pads in Pakistan boasts that the pads stop leaks...

Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals

There’s a new book about the intimate role of the pharmaceutical industry in the construction of diseases, using the example of FSD (female sexual dysfunction). The authors are Ray Moynihan, an Australian investigative journalist with a longstanding interest in...
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