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 ...

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 3 minutes A UK-based startup is hoping to turn ...

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 ...

In 2020, she founded Daye, which has now supported more than 5,000 patients with Diagnostic Tampons that test for bacteria, ...

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 ...

A UK start-up have now launched tampons that can screen for sexually transmitted infections. The idea is that rather than swabbing for a sample, you can insert the tampon for a short period of time ...

A new study that detected variable levels of heavy metals, including lead, in tampons currently on the market is being reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a spokesperson for the agency ...

A first-ever study about the presence of toxic metals in tampons is raising concerns about women’s health. University of California, Berkeley Public Health released the results of this first-time ...

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 ...