Karen Weingarten teaches in the English Department at Queens College, City University of New York. Her book Pregnancy Test was published in March 2023 with Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series. By the ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link There are two types of pregnancy tests: urine and blood. Both test for the hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), which you start ...

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When the first at-home pregnancy test arrived on store shelves in the 1970s, women everywhere were promised a “private little revolution.” For the first time, they weren’t forced to receive results in ...

[Foone] saw a tweet a few weeks ago alleging that digital pregnancy tests are a rip-off. Regular, cheap tests have an absorbent strip running the length of the plastic, with one end exposed for ...

Monica da Silva, a critical care and cardiac anesthesiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was counseling a patient who had been in a car accident. She had suffered a broken bone and ...