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 ...

The buzz around CBD and it's supposed many benefits (there's mounting evidence to show that it can help with everything from sleep problems to some types of chronic pain) has been on the up over the ...

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 ...

The FDA has commissioned an independent review of the available literature on tampon safety. The FDA has begun its internal laboratory study to measure how much metals are released from tampons.

When we talk about advancements in the field of women’s health and then look at the speculum – a device that hasn’t had an update since the 1800s – it’s easy to feel as though we’re taking two steps ...

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 ...

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley say they found 16 types of metals while testing tampons, including toxic metals like lead and arsenic. Thirty tampons from 14 brands and 18 ...

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 ...

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 ...