Using menstrual blood as a diagnostic tool may be hailed as a recent innovation but it has a surprisingly long history.
- Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
Using urine in pregnancy testing dates as far back as ancient Egypt.
La vision des règles est passée d’une période de vulnérabilité mal comprise à une étape naturelle dans la vie d’une femme grâce aux évolutions des protections hygiéniques.
Breaking the taboo: the fascinating history of menstrual products.
There’s a long history in our society of period pain being played down, or just considered “normal”. But there’s plenty of evidence in the historical records that women have always experienced it.
Speculums can be painful and invasive for many women.
El clítoris no es pequeño en absoluto. Lo que ocurre es que solo el 10 % del órgano es realmente visible.
The clitoris is not small at all, it’s just that only 10% of the organ is actually visible.
Para perempuan bisa bernapas lega. Alat pemeriksaan vagina dirancang ulang agar lebih ramah.
Women, rejoice. The speculum is getting a friendly makeover.
There was a time when virginity was a disease, and sex (preferably marital) was the only lasting solution.
Medicine has changed beyond recognition in the last 2,000 years. So why should we still care what the founders of Western medicine thought?
Reviving old remedies doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know.
Isaac Baker Brown promoted FGM in Victorian London as a treatment for hysteria, mental illness and unfeminine behaviour.
Gwyneth Paltrow stirred up an interesting discussion with her latest recommendation for the spa fan: the Mugworth V-Steam. As she put it: “You sit on what is essentially a mini-throne, and a combination…
The science and morality of creating a life with DNA from three different individuals is hot news. The UK parliament has voted in favour of allowing trials of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT), otherwise…
Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine, enemy of superstition, pioneer of rationality and fount of eternal wisdom. Statues and drawings show him with a furrowed brow, thinking hard about how…
It wasn’t that long ago that it was believed that regular periods were essential for women’s health and in their absence, a loss of blood through another orifice was a fair substitute. In a classical Greek…
“God save the Wurst: Conchita rockte London” – at least, so said the Austrian free newspaper Heute. Conchita Wurst continues to follow her Eurovision win with TV interviews and club openings, and is joining…
The idea of faecal transplants was taken a step further in the recent story of Catherine Duff who, fed up with the crippling pains and diarrhoea caused by yet another C. difficile infection, decided to…
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