Home pregnancy tests are miraculous little tools: They deliver fast results, are pretty simple to use, and can cost as little ...

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 ...

There are two main types of pregnancy tests: urine and blood tests. Take a home urine test after your next missed period — anywhere from 14 to 18 days after conception. Blood tests are more sensitive ...

You're probably familiar with the scene. Pulling the little box out of the drug store bag, ducking into the bathroom, and then waiting and staring at a little plastic stick waiting for it to change.

You've just taken a pregnancy test but can you trust the result? A Family Planning expert sets the record straight. Home pregnancy tests work by detecting the hormone produced during pregnancy (Human ...

If you've been near social media or on the Internet, you may be aware of the buzz over posts claiming a teenage boy took a home pregnancy test as a joke, received a positive result, and wound up being ...

There are many ways to find out if you’re pregnant. One is to wait and see. For those of us who are a little less patient, there’s the take-home chemistry kit known as a pregnancy test. But how do a ...

Everything you need to know about testing for pregnancy at home. Taking a pregnancy test is often an emotionally-charged experience, so you want to get it right the first time, particularly if you’re ...

Diagnosing endometriosis could soon be much easier thanks to a new at home-test that can detect a biomarker for the disease in period blood. The pregnancy-like test created by researchers at the ...