by Laura Wershler | Dec 10, 2009 | Birth Control, Health Care, Media, Menarche, Menopause, Menstruation, Newspapers, Ovulation
Can having too many menstrual cycles give you breast cancer? That’s what one might conclude from two unrelated articles that appeared in national newspapers this week. First was Nicholas D. Kristof’s Op-Ed in the New York Times. Kristof had recently...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 27, 2009 | Newspapers, PMS
Dear Amy: My girlfriend wants to “talk” again. She is currently experiencing her monthly cycle. Can I ask her to wait until this is over? She usually gets a bit worked up and later apologizes. I do not want to come across as inconsiderate. Based on past...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 11, 2009 | Menstruation, Newspapers, Sex
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 3, 2009 | Activism, Communication, Newspapers
I was quite excited to see our own Chris Bobel and Giovanna Chesler quoted in this piece from The Guardian about menstrual activism, and then to discover that the Guardian published a second piece the same day about menstruation: Rowena Davis explains What My Period...
by Chris Bobel | Sep 29, 2009 | Celebrities, Communication, Media, Newspapers, PMS
10) She is upset and wants someone to know 9) Something about estrogen levels 8 ) She is about to start her period 7) Matter over mind…her body has taken over 6) I don’t know, but she will feel better in a week or less 5) Hormones 4) Women do that about...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 26, 2009 | Law/Legal, Newspapers, Pharmaceutical
The popular birth control pill, Yaz is in the news again. Readers may remember that last autumn, Bayer (the maker of Yaz) was sanctioned by the FDA for their television commercials, “because they encourage use of Yaz in circumstances other than those in which...
