August, a pro-choice menstruation health brand launched “The Tampon Test,” a discreet pregnancy test hidden as a tampon wrapper inside August tampon boxes. The issue is making users aware of their ...

Tampons could help doctors detect early-stage ovarian cancer, a new study suggests. A team of researchers at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville found the DNA of tumour cells trapped in ...

Daye has just launched a new at-home, tampon-based test for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and other common STIs, though it's only in the UK for now. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes A UK-based startup is ...

Among the many maddening facets of the gender health gap is that women’s healthcare is seen as an afterthought, especially when it comes to research, funding, and access. So if you’ve ever leaked ...

Who’s behind it Scientists at Discovery Partners Institute, a public-private R&D center in the Loop that is part of the University of Illinois system How it works A tampon is sealed inside a metal ...

On a sunny Thursday morning, at the mostly quiet intersection of Clifton Avenue and Broadway, Evan Berkowitz and John Leavell pulled a small steel cage the size of a coffee cup from a sewer with the ...