They said "smart" tampons.
Posted on 05/31/2016 10:08:02 AM PDT by servo1969
Ridhi Tariyal and Stephen Gire, an entrepreneur and a scientist, respectively, who met in an infectious disease lab at Harvard, were stunned by the vast number of women's health issues that go undetected. It seemed clear to them that there was a problem with the way that medical testing worked in women's health. The system is fundamentally reactive, waiting for an illness to be detected before it springs into action. But when a positive test result comes back after an annual check-up, it could be too late.
"We had to come up with something that would allow women to find out about these conditions sooner than every year," Tariyal says. "You can pick up a disease any time, and letting it sit there for a year until your next visit can have consequences downstream that you don't want. The system has to change."
Together, Tariyal and Gire have been devising a radical new system of testing that will allow women to proactively keep track of their health by studying blood samples in the privacy of their homes. "I was thinking about how to get a large enough volume of blood to do this," Tariyal says. "Until I realized that we actually bleed quite a bit every month."
That's when the lightbulb came on in Tariyal's head: A tampon could double as a tool for collecting women's blood. With the right technology, it could even test the blood for a range of biomarkers and send that information to a database that would allow a woman to track her reproductive health over time.
(Excerpt) Read more at fastcompany.com ...
My initial reaction was, “uh...”
But then I read the article and gave the idea some serious thought. It makes sense and can help women avoid serious issues down the road.
“that could quite possibly be THE single most smartest thing ever in the history of mankind ever stuck in a woman’s vagina.”
Albert Einstein’s Tongue may have been smarter!
It won’t solve the root problem of people having unprotected sex with people they don’t know well enough to be doing that.
Science won’t ever take the place of morals, responsibility and individual choice.
Maybe I’m.missing something. Unprotected sex with strangers is a bad idea of course. Is this tampon idea something which tests for VD as well as other issues? If so I missed something here
That graphic is awesome! lol!
The Bill Clinton Tampon .... looks like a cigar. They’d probably be a big hit at his presidential museum (I would imagine they have a souvenir store).
Will they have a vibrating version?
They would need a whole crate of them for Hilliary.
Which gives me an idea. Could they have one that gives a electrical shock every time she lies? Just think of it, she wouldnt ever have to have her hair curled again.
Oh I know..she has had her change of life which has been ongoing for her entire life.
As long as the also test the tampons used by men who self identify as female.
May let this slip on by though.
Can't picture pulling them apart on the workbench and posting it on HackADay...lol
Although there was a post a few years back by a girl engineer titled "Hacking My Vagina" Some sort of uC controlled vibrator gizmo.
Kids these days.
https://hackaday.com/2012/11/25/making-a-touchless-vibrator-with-reverse-engineering/
Have a short conversation with a gynecologist first. You may change you mind.
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