Tampons have come a long way since their earliest uses. In the 5th century B.C., Greeks made them from lint wrapped around small pieces of wood, as noted by Hippocrates, "the father of medicine". The ...

When the Agriculture Department finished its calculations last month, the findings were startling: 2022 was a disaster for upland cotton in Texas, the state where the coarse fiber is primarily grown ...

Tampons have become the latest household product to fall foul of supply chain issues. Reports of a scarcity of the menstrual product, used by millions in the U.S., have combined with general ...