by Laura Wershler | May 30, 2012 | Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Health Care, Hormones, New Research, Pharmaceutical
If you quit the pill would you replace it with forget-about-it or mindful birth control? How you feel about your body, your menstrual cycle and your sexual relationship(s) will influence your choice. Another consideration might be your attitude towards an unintended...
by Heather Dillaway | Mar 29, 2012 | Communication, Health Care, Hormones, Internet, Language, Literature, Media, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
As I embark on my 40th year I look ahead to menopause. I guess there is a good chance I’m approaching some foggy years. Brain fog, that is. In the past week a flurry of online news articles review new research findings on the “brain fog” that many perimenopausal women...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 8, 2011 | Menstruation
Guest Post by Harriet Hall, M.D. When women live together, do their menstrual cycles tend to synchronize? It’s been a long time since I first heard that claim. I didn’t believe it, for a number of reasons. I had never observed it myself, I saw no plausible mechanism...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 4, 2011 | Health Care, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Successful tests on rhesus monkeys are a long way from clinical trials on women, but this is interesting to those of us following the conversations and debates about cycle-stopping contraceptives: new research testing progestin antagonists indicates that the drug can...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 11, 2010 | Menorrhagia, Menstruation, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Nearly a year ago, we shared news of FDA approval of tranexamic acid tablets as treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding. Today we learned of successful clinical trials of the drug this purpose: The current issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology includes the results of a...