by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 9, 2013 | Internet
It’s OK to say vagina in TV sitcoms, but you still can’t say it in tampon ads! Like women who are pregnant, women who use synthetic progesterone birth control injections (such as Depo-Provera) are more vulnerable to certain infections including malaria,...
by Laura Wershler | Mar 6, 2013 | Birth Control, Fertility, Hormones, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical, Reproduction
I’ve been wading through State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals – 2012. The 289-page report was prepared by a group of experts for the United Nations Environmental Programme and World Health Organization. It is dense and complex, but what...
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 | Mar 2, 2013 | Internet
A new study reports that women who eat diets rich in iron are less likely to report symptoms of pre-menstrual syndrome. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-C.A., recently reintroduced the Real Education for Healthy Youth Act (REHYA), renewing their...
