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 Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 26, 2012 | Communication, Menstruation
I got a bit snippy with a new reader in our comments recently. I didn’t mean to, and I sure hope I didn’t drive anyone away from re:Cycling. But after 20 years of studying, writing, talking, and reading menstruation research, I’ve grown weary of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 10, 2012 | Internet
The big news in the U.S. this week: The female voter has ways of shutting that whole thing down. Rachel Maddow explains in this video. Cycle Harmony suggests ten simple ways to honor your cycle. Mike Huckabee, talk show host and one-time candidate for the Republican...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 3, 2012 | Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Health Care, New Research
The pill is one of the most intensely studied drugs in history, and believed to be among the safest – safer than aspirin, as an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health noted twenty years ago. Yet young women seem to be quitting in droves, for a variety of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 22, 2012 | Internet
An Australian ad for maxi-pads (see video at right) demonstrates how well they stay put. Registration is open now for this free online course, Contraception: Choices, Culture and Consequences. What could make someone change her method of birth control? Jane Brody...