Four years ago, when the heavy period bleeding which I’d had since adolescence suddenly became much worse, I never would have predicted
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Birth Control is Bad News for Thyroid and Liver
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A lot of things baffle me about the medical industry’s approach to birth control, but the one thing I’ve struggled with the
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Thoracic Endometriosis
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Endometriosis is a common disease, affecting up to 10% of women. It is characterized by the presence of tissue similar to the
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Birth Control’s Misremembered History
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“Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us
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Ding, Dong! Hormones at Your Door!
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The side effects of hormonal birth control are notoriously under-recognized. So much so, that I filmed a documentary about them, entitled, Hormoneously
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When you write about hormonal birth control, it becomes a sort of self-perpetuating torture. Women who have been injured frequently reach out
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A RantWomen who have been given Lupron (leuprolide) and the other GnRH agonists and antagonists and women who have had their ovaries
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A few weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of delivering a keynote address at the Midwifery Today Conference in Eugene, Oregon. As
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