New this week: You thought you had it bad: Ads and patents for suspenders to hold menstrual pads (19th century, U.S.A.) - The earliest multinational pads? Hartmann's (19th century, Germany, England, U.S.A.) - Open (No-crotch) drawers (19th century, U.S.A.)

Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Words and expressions for menstruation
What did European and American women use for menstruation in the past?

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I got carried away on New this week (above - click away!), and haven't edited the material for this page and the rest of the MUM site

I apologize and will print your letters and other information here this coming weekend, maybe to the exclusion of a new New this week, as my punishment. But you won't believe the things I'm discovering - they're discoveries for me, anyway - and telling you about!

Read the New this week, at the top of this page!


You have privacy here

What happens when you visit this site?

Nothing.

I get no information about you from any source when you visit, and I have no idea who you are, before, during or after your visit.

This is private - period.


Is this the new millennium or even century?

You can get the correct information if you go to these pages published by the U S Naval Observatory:

http://psyche.usno.navy.mil/millennium/whenIs.html (that`s a capital "i" in

"whenIs")

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/faq/docs/millennium.html

A comprehensive site from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich will put right any doubts:

http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/new_mill.html


Tell Your Congressperson You Support the Tampon Safety and Research Act of 1999! Here's How and Why


Help Wanted: This Museum Needs a Public Official For Its Board of Directors

Your MUM is doing the paper work necessary to become eligible to receive support from foundations as a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. To achieve this status, it helps to have a American public official - an elected or appointed official of the government, federal, state or local - on its board of directors.

What public official out there will support a museum for the worldwide culture of women's health and menstruation?

Read about my ideas for the museum. What are yours?

Eventually I would also like to entice people experienced in the law, finances and fund raising to the board.

Any suggestions?


Do You Have Irregular Menses?

If so, you may have polycystic ovary syndrome [and here's a support association for it].

Jane Newman, Clinical Research Coordinator at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University School of Medicine, asked me to tell you that

Irregular menses identify women at high risk for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which exists in 6-10% of women of reproductive age. PCOS is a major cause of infertility and is linked to diabetes.

Learn more about current research on PCOS at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State University - or contact Jane Newman.

If you have fewer than six periods a year, you may be eligible to participate in the study!

See more medical and scientific information about menstruation.


New this week: You thought you had it bad: Ads and patents for suspenders to hold menstrual pads (19th century, U.S.A.) - The earliest multinational pads? Hartmann's (19th century, Germany, England, U.S.A.) - Open (No-crotch) drawers (19th century, U.S.A.)

Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Words and expressions for menstruation
What did European and American women use for menstruation in the past?

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