This story was originally posted as a five part series on our site in 2011-2012 when the healthcare debate began heating up.
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Pseudotumor Cerebri – Say What?
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If you are reading this, you might be thinking to yourself, “there she goes again, writing about some arcane medical condition that
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Once upon a time, a 26-year-old woman went to her doctor and asked to be put on the new birth control pill
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Birth Control Pill and Your Fertility
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Let’s face it; if a girl’s period is irregular, heavy, or painful when she goes to her family doctor, the first line
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Do We Really Understand Oral Contraceptives?
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While researching my hypothesis linking oral contraceptive use to the development of autism in children, I wondered about why so many women
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Access Versus Safety: It’s Not Either OrIn February 2012, five years ago to the week, I wrote: “In the US women seem
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Half a century ago, the National Institutes of Health sponsored a study on the metabolic effects of hormonal contraceptives. In the committee’s
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My headache started on a Saturday night in the middle of December. I wasn’t admitted to the hospital until a Monday morning
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