Hot Flushes Relief Needn’t Enter the Bio-Identicals Fray
Guest Post by Jerilynn Prior, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research As a clinician scientist with expertise in hormones and women’s health, I sit in Canada and look at the hype and dis-sing going on about “bio-identicals” in the USA and shake my head. If...
Blood on Screen: MENstruation
I often hear women state that men would be uncomfortable if they overheard our discussion of menstruation. Many women work to keep men out of the menstruation conversation. But... surprise! Men are ready to participate. And very often, I hear men say that they want to...
Update in Prempro Case
Even though the verdict regarding punitive damages awarded to Connie Barton in her suit against Prempro was sealed (as we wrote last week), the figure has leaked out. A Philadelphia jury awarded her $75 million in punitive damages, in addition to $3.7 million in...
Works Like Magic
Just when you think femcare ads can't get any sillier . . . the new Always "Infinity" pad promises to "pull its own disappearing act". Hmm . . . don't we want pads to STAY where we PUT them?! Oh, it's the "fluid" that disappears. (That's right, fluid. Not blood.)...
Girls, Periods, and Missing School II: Breaking the Silence
In Rwanda, Harvard Business School Fellow Elizabeth Scharpf is breaking menstrual silence and challenging female poverty with the Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) program. SHE helps local women in developing countries "jump-start their own businesses to...
Introducing…
Them was fightin' words. re:Cycling readers (thanks!) already know about Redbook's dimwitted "snub" of the soon-to-be released FLOW: The Cultural History of Menstruation: You welcome it, bemoan it, or just live with it. However you feel about your period, we’re pretty...
