by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 8, 2010 | Anatomy, Menstruation, Sex
As a native of the midwestern U.S., I know very little about sushi. (Much of it looks like what we call “bait” back in Indiana.) So I did not know that very few women prepare sushi in restaurants. This piece in Toronto Life explains why not: Women’s hands...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 3, 2010 | Birth Control, Menstruation, New Research, Pharmaceutical
We’ve mentioned Yaz and its sister drug Yasmin before, and our friend Holly Grigg-Spall tracks the progress of complaints against them and other oral contraceptives. Yaz and Yasmin were Bayer’s top-selling drugs in 2008, bringing in about $1.8 billion, a 17...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 1, 2010 | Health Care, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research, Sex
POZ magazine and poz.com claim to be the leading publication and website in the U.S. about HIV/AIDS. The March 2010 issue has a great article by Suzanne Bopp about menstruation, menopause, and HIV. As with medical and cultural knowledge about HIV itself, understanding...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 7, 2010 | Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
A study to be published in the British Medical Journal’s Thorax,* which focuses on respiratory medicine, finds that estrogen-only hormone treatment for menopause symptoms is associated with higher risk of asthma. The study involved nearly 58,000 women over 12...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 5, 2010 | New Research, Reproduction
When new moms are sometimes forgetful or spacey, it is often attributed to ‘baby brain’ or ‘mumnesia’ or some other clever appellation that reinforces the idea that pregnancy leads to memory loss. It’s another variation on the...