by Laura Wershler | Aug 22, 2012 | Birth Control, Fertility, Menstruation, Ovulation, Pregnancy, Reproduction
Your fertility is not a deep, dark mystery only your doctor can unravel. It’s yours to own, understand and manage. Forget the ticking biological clock, it’s the wrong metaphor. Fertility ebbs and flows, like the phases of the moon. It’s about the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 13, 2012 | Menstruation
Guest Post by Holly Grigg-Spall On February 10th, the Washington Post published an op-ed piece by Rachel Maddow. In this she outlines how there are Republicans who don’t want birth control covered by insurance, they don’t want Planned Parenthood receiving...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 31, 2011 | Internet
PZ Meyers at Pharyngula summarizes a fascinating new proposal to explain why women (and a few other animals) menstruate: Emera, Romero, and Wagner, the authors of the paper, suggest the question to explained is decidualization, the production of a thickened...
by Chris Hitchcock | Nov 22, 2011 | Language, Menopause, New Research
Recently Heather Dillaway blogged about the challenges and frustrations of naming, and this blog continues with that theme, looking at a recent article about increased rates of “ovarian failure” following ovary-preserving hysterectomy. “Ovary-saving...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 4, 2011 | Health Care, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Successful tests on rhesus monkeys are a long way from clinical trials on women, but this is interesting to those of us following the conversations and debates about cycle-stopping contraceptives: new research testing progestin antagonists indicates that the drug can...