In December 2018, there was a twitter storm after a menstrual health activist referred to people who menstruate as ‘bleeders’ in a lighthearted tweet raising awareness of period poverty. Some
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Archives for sameness v difference
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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Not all women; understanding biological variation
This month’s blog tries to unpick a major myth about the female body, and how it affects the way in which clinical research is understood by the public, media, and
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The great unknown; medicines and the menstrual cycle
In last week’s post about the importance of tracking health symptoms over the course of the menstrual cycle, I briefly mentioned the fact that most medicines have only been tested on
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