New Drug for Heavy Periods
The FDA announced yesterday that they have approved tranexamic acid tablets for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding, under the brand name Lysteda. According to the press release, approximately 3 million US women experience heavy bleeding, usually with no...
Lady Parts
The land of euphemisms is a fantasy land. It is awash in pink. It never rains. The houses are made of gingerbread and the clouds of cotton candy. Look! There goes My Little Pony! It is a safe and happy place that keeps us innocent and pure. Wait? Was that Strawberry...
Sex and the Univer-sity
The trend of sex columns in student newspapers is no longer new (although the student newspaper at the school where I teach lacks one): the first sex column in a student newspaper was published in 1997, at (where else?) University of California-Berkeley. The...
What Women Really Want
Obviously I'm spending waaay too much time on the interwebz these days. My elaborate system of RSS feeds, Twitter messages, email alerts, and random blog surfing just pointed me to a website called "Twirlit", with the subtitle What Women Really Want. What women really...
Are we addicted to The Pill?
Guest Post by Holly Grigg-Spall, freelance writer ("Sweetening the Pill") The popularity of the birth control pill is an essential element of our cultural attitude towards menstruation, and women's bodies as a whole. After taking the pill for ten years I recently...
The Quiet Uterus?
Guest Post by Moira Howes, Trent University Over thirty years ago, Roger V. Short argued that regular menstrual cycling is probably a health hazard and thus, we should try to “keep the ovaries and the female reproductive tract in a state of quiescence when...
