YOUR PCOS RESOURCE
Distorted Eating
Angela Grassi, a licensed dietician specializing in polycystic ovarian syndrome, will be featured here at PCOS Today Magazine, with a column about distorted eating. Distorted eating, which includes problems like emotional eating, anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating, can have a significant affect on PCOS treatment and management. Angela's practice is located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, but she also provides nutrition counseling via the phone. She will also answer reader questions following her first column. Check back soon for Angela's first column! In the meantime, check out her practice's Web site at www.pcosnutrition.com.
Tell Your Story
Roz Kadir
Please join us in welcoming Roz Kadir, who has submitted the first Story of PCOS. Roz tells us about her daughter's struggles with PCOS. Her daughter, Zara, a 20-year-old woman from the United Kingdom, was recently diagnosed. Read as Roz tells the story of her daughter's fight with the syndrome from a mother's perspective. Visit Stories of PCOS by clicking on the link in the column to the right. (Updated April 8, 2007)
Plans are being made now to take PCOS Today Magazine to a print version that will come out on a quarterly basis. How do you fit in to this plan? We need story ideas! What would you like to see in upcoming print and online issues of PCOS Today Magazine?
Here's how you can send your story ideas in to the editor:
Send an e-mail to lmharvey@pcostodaymagazine.com. In the e-mail, give us details about your story idea. What is your idea? Do you have sources who we can talk to? How will your idea benefit women and girls with PCOS? Do you want to write the story? How long (how many words) will it be? Anything will be considered: profiles of women with PCOS; reviews of books about PCOS (if you've written one, let us know!); profiles of doctors who treat women and girls with PCOS; you name it. If you have other ideas for content (that is not story-based), let us know too!A great IVF/PCOS/TTC Blog
About a week ago, I received an e-mail about a blog detailing the in-vitro fertilization process of a woman with PCOS trying to conceive. Candie details her experience with IVF, step-by-step in her blog. Check out http://looneybaby.blogspot.com.
From the creators of SuperNanny
Project PCOS is looking for women to share their stories and change their lives on a new TV show
The producers of SUPERNANNY are seeking people who want to make a difference in their lives - and possibly win a large sum of money.
The show is committed to transforming people's lives and being an inspiration to others. It's a weight loss show that takes participants on the journey of a lifetime, leaving them in a completely new place than where they started - and possibly winning a large sum of money. It will be inspirational, health-conscious, and entertaining.
People who are interested in participating can get more information and apply at the following website: www.ricochettelevision.com/newprogram.
When submitting your applications and information, please reference Project PCOS, as we are working with Ricochet in hopes of including a woman with PCOS on the show!
For more information about Project PCOS, our partnerships and campaigns, please visit - http://www.projectpcos.org
Coming in (late) March 2007
The producers of SUPERNANNY are seeking people who want to make a difference in their lives - and possibly win a large sum of money.
The show is committed to transforming people's lives and being an inspiration to others. It's a weight loss show that takes participants on the journey of a lifetime, leaving them in a completely new place than where they started - and possibly winning a large sum of money. It will be inspirational, health-conscious, and entertaining.
People who are interested in participating can get more information and apply at the following website: www.ricochettelevision.com/newprogram.
When submitting your applications and information, please reference Project PCOS, as we are working with Ricochet in hopes of including a woman with PCOS on the show!
For more information about Project PCOS, our partnerships and campaigns, please visit - http://www.projectpcos.org
Coming in (late) March 2007
The meeting with Dr. Andrea Dunaif and her team of researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago went incredibly well! I have much to share with the readers of PCOS Today Magazine. Look for the article about this visit this month (March 2007). I think you'll be amazed at what I found out, and I'll tell you how to get involved with their research! (Updated March 4, 2007)
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Visit the "current issue" page in late March for a detailed interview with the PCOS research team at Northwestern University in Chicago! The team, devoted to the research of polycystic ovarian syndrome through clinical trials, is going to share their latest news with us. (Updated March 4, 2007)
Thriving Partnership!
Introducing a new partnership between
Ashley Tabeling and PCOS Today Magazine!
The PCOS Revolution is NOW!
On February 1, Project PCOS unveiled a brand new website and campaign designed with the PCOS Patient and their supporters in mind.
This new website is revolutionizing how PCOS information and support is accessed
and will include, downloadable information and pamhplets, support forums, chats
with experts, tips and tricks, research, news and much, much more.
Join the project and its leading panel of experts including.... Dr. Charles Glueck, Dr. Katherine Sherif, Monika Woolsey, Kelly Bliss, Beadside the Bay, PCOS Today Magazine, and Drs. Deborah and Spencer Ward, to mention a few.
Just click on the link http://www.projectpcos.org to gain access to the innovative
site that was created by the PCOS community for the PCOS community!
You can now log onto the Project PCOS site!
Check out the Project PCOS blog!
TAKE THE SURVEY!
If you scroll to the bottom of this page, there are two questions the editors of PCOS Today need your input on to keep this publication the best resource it can be! It should take less than 3 minutes for you to answer the two questions. Thank you. If you would like to provide more input, please e-mail the publisher!
A great PCOS research news source
Check out OBGYN.net if you're looking for updated information about relevant PCOS research. Recent articles include focus on sleep deprivation and metabolic syndrome, PCOS from a parent's perspective (how to help a teenager deal with PCOS), and pelvin pain. (Updated Oct. 27, 2006)
Women's Health Research: Clinical Trials
PCOS Today is now featuring information about current clinical trials underway within the United States. Please click on the link above to find out more about recent trials at Northwestern University and the University of Virginia Health System, among others. (Updated Sept. 15, 2006)
The Society of Women's Health Research is quite the resource for all things health-related about women. Recently came across this article about the prevalence of women in medical research studies. Most interesting from this article is the concept that the gender of the researcher greatly affects the gender of the participants. This coupled with a growing decline in women participating in these medical research studies makes the process of finding better treatments for things like PCOS harder to find. Check out this article, "The Involvement of Women in Medical Research Studies" by clicking on the title, and check back to this site later for a page about PCOS-related clinical trials. (Updated July 25, 2006)
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Welcome to PCOS Today magazine! All online!
Check out the newest information on PCOS Today! We're currently featuring information about PCOS and PCOS-related clinical trials. A new link is featured at the top of this page to a list of numerous clinical trials you might be interested in participating.
EDITOR'S MESSAGE
The beginning of 2007 brought a great new opportunity for partnership within the PCOS community. Along with four other PCOS advocates with a ferocious urge to provide the most free flow of information about the syndrome, I am part of Project PCOS (www.projectpcos.org). Our aim, aside from recreating how the world views PCOS and gets its information about the syndrome, includes finding ways for those with PCOS to advocate for themselves. Check out the Project's Web site for more information.
This month (FINALLY), the story about the Northwestern University PCOS Study group will debut. I think you'll be quite surprised by what you learn about this team of professionals dedicated to the medical side of the syndrome. I truly enjoyed meeting with Dr. Andrea Dunaif, Helen Anderson, and the many other PCOS Study staff in late 2006, and I anticipate a long-standing relationship with them from here on.
Take care, Linda
EDITOR'S MESSAGE
The beginning of 2007 brought a great new opportunity for partnership within the PCOS community. Along with four other PCOS advocates with a ferocious urge to provide the most free flow of information about the syndrome, I am part of Project PCOS (www.projectpcos.org). Our aim, aside from recreating how the world views PCOS and gets its information about the syndrome, includes finding ways for those with PCOS to advocate for themselves. Check out the Project's Web site for more information.
This month (FINALLY), the story about the Northwestern University PCOS Study group will debut. I think you'll be quite surprised by what you learn about this team of professionals dedicated to the medical side of the syndrome. I truly enjoyed meeting with Dr. Andrea Dunaif, Helen Anderson, and the many other PCOS Study staff in late 2006, and I anticipate a long-standing relationship with them from here on.
Take care, Linda
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