The teenagers launched into their well-rehearsed pitch in the exposed-brick loft of a Raleigh, North Carolina, co-working space. Two men, a venture capitalist and a lawyer, listened. “The menstrual ...

Scientists have unveiled a new device that can be incorporated into menstrual pads and may someday be helpful for screening for diseases like ovarian cancer. The light-weight device looks for disease ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech say they have developed a menstrual pad with a special formula that allows blood to turn to gel. Photo by Jenise Jacques for Virginia Tech Researchers at Virginia Tech say ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Passively self-collected menstrual blood for the detection of HPV showed results that were highly ...

Self-collected menstrual blood samples offered "highly concordant" results with clinician-collected sampling in women who were positive for human papillomavirus (HPV), a researcher reported. In a ...

OK, we're going to take a few minutes now to talk about periods, as in the menstrual kind. Every month, hundreds of millions of people have their periods. It's blood that literally ends up in the ...

The future of menstruation may look a bit different than today, if a team of scientists in Virginia have anything to say about it. They’ve created pads and cups that can solidify menstrual blood ...

Which reusable menstrual pad is best? It is just as important to support products that are environmentally friendly as it is to purchase products that are organic and nontoxic. These concepts go hand ...

In a recent article published in the BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, researchers used expired human-packed red blood cells (RBCs) to test the maximal capacity of a variety of commercially available ...

Menstrual discs – insertable period products that provide up to 12 hours of protection against leaks – may be a better option for people who get heavy periods than traditional products like tampons or ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On a Wednesday in early March, a lab scientist named Carlo removed a paper strip ...