Tag: tampons

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. There is no screening test for ovarian cancer. Three FIU medical students would like to change that. They are hoping to save lives by collecting used tampons. The idea began to germinate when Jessica Seigel, Leah Cohen and Lauren Dittman, who are in their fourth year at Herbert Wertheim

You know condoms have a sell-by date, but it turns out something else you stick in your V can expire, too. “Tampons have an expiry date that’s usually five years after they’re produced,” says Alyssa Dweck ob-gyn author of The Complete A to Z for Your V. “Think about cotton,” says Dweck. “It’s susceptible to mould and

Serious question: When’s the last time you thanked your vulva? What about your vagina? Let’s expand it to your reproductive organs as a whole—when was the last time you actually said “thank you”? If your answer was anything other than “uh, never?” you’re a bold-faced liar, because literally no one does that. But that’s not