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Cover story in New York Magazine questions The Pill

November 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
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November 30th, 2010 by Giovanna Chesler

Rare is the feature on women’s health from a magazine hip to New York City’s nightlife, dining, arts and entertainment. Within the past two months alone the magazine featured articles on the Julie Taymor Spiderman play, Jimmy Fallon and John Stewart. Not what one might consider provoking and thoughtful. Yet this week’s issue arrived with a juicy six page article titled Waking Up From the Pill that asks readers to consider the side effects of hormonal birth control.

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Women’s Brains on Steroids – Birth control pills appear to remodel brain structure

September 28, 2010 By 1 Comment

Birth control pills appear to remodel brain structure
Scientific American

By Craig H. Kinsley and Elizabeth A. Meyer September 28, 2010

It seems that weekly we hear about some professional athlete who sullies himself and his sport through abuse of steroids. The melodrama unfolds, careers and statistics are brought low and asterisked, and everyone bemoans another fallen competitor. Yet there are millions of cases of steroid use that occur daily with barely a second thought: Millions of women take birth control pills, blithely unaware that their effects may be subtly seeping into and modulating brain structure and activity.

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Oral contraceptive rises risk of breast cancer

August 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The Times of India

ANI, Aug 4, 2010, 12.01pm IST

In a new study, scientists found that African American women who use oral contraceptives have a greater likelihood of developing breast cancer than nonusers.

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Women, Teens on the Pill Risk Breast Cancer, Major Study Says

March 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / PRURGENT
March 8, 2010

Oral contraception has been closely linked to a certain deadly type of breast cancer, a leading cancer journal stated recently, and the results may prove to challenge the breast cancer research community.

A study concerning the deadly “triple negative” breast cancer, involving more than 1500 women aged 20 – 45, found a “distinct etiology,” or cause and effect, for women who used oral contraception for longer than a year, and an even stronger correlation for women who began using it before the age of 18.

The study was published in the April 2009 Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention over a five-year period.

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Are We Addicted to the Pill?

November 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
Guest Post by Holly Grigg-Spall, freelance writer (”Sweetening the Pill“)

The popularity of the birth control pill is an essential element of our cultural attitude towards menstruation, and women’s bodies as a whole. After taking the pill for ten years I recently decided to stop, for good. I have this month had my first real period in a decade. I didn’t decide to come off the pill because I want a baby, it’s because I want to blog, and have been blogging about the pill for several months. My blog ranges from my own personal ramblings about taking the pill, to adventures in the world of women’s studies. I am not religious, pro-abstinence or anything like a hippy, I just came to realise that I was taking a very powerful medication every day and I wasn’t sure exactly why.

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Like a Natural Woman

April 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Ms Magazine Fall 2008 What’s the real story behind period-suppressing contraceptives? By Ann Friedman When Lybrel, a brand of birth control pill that stops monthly menstruation, became available in July, many women expressed skepticism that suppressing a regular bodily function could come without serious side effects. The media quickly latched onto this attitude, with headlines Continue Reading …

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Safety, Efficacy of Oral Contraceptive That Incorporates Estrogen

August 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment

MONTHLY WOMEN’S HEALTH RESEARCH REVIEW RESEARCH | Safety, Efficacy of Oral Contraceptive That Incorporates Estrogen During Traditional Placebo Week Examined [July 31, 2008] Summary of “Efficacy and Safety of a 28-Day Oral Contraceptive With 7 Days of Low-Dose Estrogen in Place of Placebo,” Poindexter et al., Contraception, August 2008. Oral contraceptives with a modified hormone-free Continue Reading …

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