Tag: menstrual cycles

• Women are from Earth

  Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus –remember that book? It was published in 1992, and although it was really talking about relationship issues between the sexes, it seems to hint at other, more physiological differences that underpin the disparity -differences that have sometimes been overlooked, or perhaps ignored, in many pharmaceutical drug studies.…

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  October 12, 2016

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  British Journal of Sports Medicine, CBC article, CIHR, control groups, hormonal cycles, inadvertent fetal exposure to drug, Men are from Mars Women are from Venus, menstrual cycles, sex bias in clinical studies, sex bias in laboratory animals, USFDA, Women in studies, women’s health

• Menstruation and Sports

  Okay, time to cross the line again. I’ve written about this before (see Menstrual Taboos  https://musingsonwomenshealth.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/menstrual-taboos/ ) but the issue keeps popping up. In the recent 2015 Australian Open, the top ranking female tennis player in Britain, Heather Watson, suffered a first round defeat. In the subsequent interview, as she was being grilled about what might…

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  April 1, 2015

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  Australian Open, Girl things, Heather Watson, Karen Houppert, menstrual cycles, menstrual physiology, menstrual taboos, menstruation, menstruation and sports, Plato’s allegory of the Cave