by Laura Wershler | Dec 14, 2011 | Birth Control, Law/Legal, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical
Blood clots are a serious, if rare, side-effect of hormonal contraceptives. If left untreated, clots can lead to debilitating, or fatal, strokes. The increased risk of blood clots in users of some hormonal birth control brands has been the subject of several recent...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 18, 2011 | Advertising, Anatomy, Birth Control, Men
I’ve spent so many years as a professor of Women’s Studies telling students that feminism is about equality, and that being pro-woman doesn’t mean being anti-men. I thought perhaps we’d moved past that 1990s meme of seeing everything that is...
by Laura Wershler | Nov 16, 2011 | Birth Control, Health Care, Men, New Research
Of the growing list of reasons why women might want to reconsider using birth control pills, this could well be the strangest. Researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto published a study on Nov. 15 in the BMJ Open Journal in which they found a “strong...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 29, 2011 | Birth Control, Law/Legal
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to consumers not to use the emergency birth control medicine labeled as Evital. The drug is not safe or effective in preventing pregnancy. The packaging label of the potentially ineffective and suspect...
by Chris Hitchcock | Mar 17, 2011 | Activism, Birth Control, Health Care, Humor, Internet
Here’s an interesting political approach. While there are hairs to split (do all women have vaginas? do all people with vaginas consider themselves women? and what about those of us with no sexual partners, or sexual partners without penises?), there’s...