From The Team
Stories, essays, and updates from across our global community.
Up until 2017, menstrual products had never been depicted with realistic period blood. For decades, menstrual products such as pads and tampons were tested with saline instead of real blood. While this may not seem like a pressing issue, these representations falsely reflect how these products perform in real life. To understand this discovery and how it is changing the way that researchers, doctors, and consumers view menstrual health as a whole, we must first examine the history of using saline as a substitute for blood.
So many women have great potential but are hindered in the global workforce because of the digital literacy gap, and simply having access to technology is not sufficient; what is needed are practical and useful skills.
One of the most dramatic sex-based disparities in all of medicine is observed within the rates of autoimmune diagnoses. For every one man diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, four women will receive the same news. This disproportionate reality proves that the autoimmune surge is not some random medical mystery; it is a result of female biology, exacerbated by the gaps in women’s health research.
