Elizabeth Scharpf is a force. She has a stack of diplomas and a downright intimidating resume. Scharpf, 38, studied at Notre Dame, spent two years researching the Austrian healthcare system on a ...

This Indian innovator wants to bring sanitary pads to 100 million women. Arunachalam Murugananthan is known as India's pad man. Breaking a strict taboo in India's tradition-bound society, ...

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When we first meet Orange Is the New Black’s Piper Chapman, she’s a fish out of water. If we didn’t already know Piper was a prison novice, her maxi pad shower shoes, held together with a single hair ...

The business logic is quite simple: Find an unmet need, and then fill it. Even better: Find an unmet need that returns on a monthly basis. That's the little formula that's fueling Arunachalam ...

Learners of Barotuke Primary School in Awach Sub-county, Abim District, display how to make and wear a reusable sanitary pad during a commissioning exercise at the school in August 2025. PHOTO/TOBBIAS ...

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