LATER THIS YEAR, my home state of California will become the first to provide oral contraceptives over the counter, after months of wondering whether birth…
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CYCLE TECHNOLOGIES describes their fertility awareness tools as “brilliantly simple.” Leslie Heyer founded the company in 2002, and since then she has developed the physical…
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IF HEADLINES ARE ANYTHING TO GO BY, an increasing number of women are rejecting hormonal contraceptives for the sympto-thermal method of fertility awareness. According to…
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MOODY BITCHES, a groundbreaking book by psychiatrist Dr. Julie Holland that calls for society to reconsider how it views female “moodiness,” has whipped up controversy in…
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IN A RECENT EPISODE of Real Time with Bill Maher — one that I could actually sit through without yelling and muttering to myself —…
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LARA BRIDEN is a Naturopathic Doctor (ND) practicing in Sydney. If you’ve never heard of naturopathic medicine, it’s an approach to healthcare that “uses holistic and nontoxic…
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THE INTERNET apparently has a very short memory. Case in point: approximately every six months, we get a slew of articles proclaiming that “The Male…
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SAYANA PRESS. It sounds like a new coffee maker, doesn’t it? Or the latest Victoria’s Secret angel. If the giddy endorsement of Cosmopolitan’s Jill Filipovic…
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN when tens of thousands of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies such as Merck and Bayer, brought against them over contraceptives such as…
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DID YOU KNOW that there are some side effects to your birth control pill that fail to make it onto the insert? The drug companies…
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AS the fight rages on to make the birth control pill more accessible to women in the US, an increasing number are actually turning away from…
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