Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It all started when podcaster and content creator Renee Reina conducted her very own tampon experiment, testing the absorbency of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...