by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 24, 2011 | Advertising, Media, Menorrhagia, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical, Television
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved tranexamic acid tablets as treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding more than a year ago, but you probably haven’t seen much of this television commercial to promote the drug (brand name Lysteda). Matthew Arnold...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 15, 2011 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, Men, Menstruation, Television
Like Sheldon says, you could save a lot of money if you buy tampons in bulk. Lots of women are probably wishing they’d bought o.b. tampons in bulk, now that they’re going for $20 a box on ebay....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 13, 2010 | Advertising, Media, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical, Television
At least according to the newest ad for Kitadol, a menstrual pain reliever sold in Chile. According to The Viking Network, Viking women retained property and inheritance rights after marriage, plus the right to divorce a husband who mistreated her or their children,...
by Chris Bobel | May 19, 2010 | Celebrities, Communication, Language, Menstruation, Television
Monday morning: A friend tips me off that Joan Rivers’s on-TV use of the word PERIOD was bleeped! Yes, dear reader, somewhere, a censor deemsĀ even the innocuous euphemism for MENSTRUATION unsuitable for television. Uh…speechless. [You can view the clip at...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 27, 2010 | Celebrities, Humor, Menstruation, Television
I’m surely not the only fan of Amy Poehler and Parks and Recreation around here, am I? (Oh, Amy Poehler, have you been reading my mail? Leslie Knope is more like me than I care to admit.) As I’ve written elsewhere, menstruation is seldom mentioned or...