by Paula Derry | Mar 4, 2013 | Menopause, Pharmaceutical, Sex
On February 26, 2013, the Food and Drug Administration issued a news release saying that it had approved a medication called Osphena to treat a problem called postmenopausal dyspareunia (pain during sexual intercourse associated with changes in the vagina after...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 3, 2012 | Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Health Care, New Research
The pill is one of the most intensely studied drugs in history, and believed to be among the safest – safer than aspirin, as an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health noted twenty years ago. Yet young women seem to be quitting in droves, for a variety of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 5, 2012 | Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Hormones, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Leslie Carol Botha Women’s Health Freedom Coalition Coordinator, Natural Solutions Foundation I still remember the first Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference I attended in Tucson, AZ in June, 1999. The statement that made the most impact...
by Chris Bobel | Jun 11, 2012 | Humor, Men, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical
At the 2007 conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, a presenter cited the famous satirical essay by Gloria Steinem, If Men Could Menstruate, as inspiration for “flipping the image” to raise awareness about an issue. Remembering this...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 5, 2012 | Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Leslie Botha, Broadcast Journalist It appears that women ages 27 to 45 in Canada are being subjected to the same type of Gardasil® advertising campaign adolescents and their families are in the United States. The full page advertisements are running...