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 ...

The design for Margaret Crane's prototype home pregnancy test kit was inspired by a transparent plastic paperclip container. It was once a test conducted by doctors, requiring an appointment for an ...

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.

At-home pregnancy tests are pretty damn accurate, right? If you get a positive result you can almost certainly assume you are pregnant, at which point you should visit your GP to confirm the news, and ...

An at-home pregnancy test is how most women confirm an early suspicion of pregnancy. But according to some, a drugstore test isn’t the only way. Some women get creative and create their own ...

Am I pregnant? Finding out the answer to that life-changing question isn't something women want to gamble with. But knowing which at-home pregnancy test to use is a quandary all on its own. Should you ...