Differentiating ‘normal menstrual changes’ [1] from PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome) ‘symptoms’ is a big problem for patients, clinicians, and researchers [2]. There is no biological test that can be used to
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The ‘virginity’ myth…
Image: 'Virgo' in Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825 This week we tackle another reproductive health myth, and perhaps the most dangerous one of all...
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Menstrual cycle length… What’s normal?
Image credit: Pastorius on Wikimedia- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plastic_tape_measure.jpg Many people are concerned because they think that their cycle is too short, too long, or just not ‘regular’ enough... Sometimes, there is a health
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I’m so over the moon… myth (Part 2)
Image: ‘Die Mondfee’ -‘The Moon Fairy’- by Hermann Kaulbach The last post outlined two common menstrual myths… One about the moon having an influence over the menstrual cycle, another about
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I’m so over the moon… myth (Part 1)
Image: ‘Die Mondfee’ -‘The Moon Fairy’- by Hermann Kaulbach (Wiki-commons) Building on last month’s blog about the way in which PMS is often (wrongly) presented as something affecting ‘all women’,
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