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Smear Campaign: The Cold, Hard Truth About Speculums

Smear Campaign: The Cold, Hard Truth About Speculums

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This week, Heather and Lisa dive into one of gynecology's most dreaded instruments — the speculum — and the wave of new, more comfortable designs headed to doctors' offices. They cover updated cervical cancer screening guidelines, applaud the medical community's call for less-frequent Pap smears, and trace the speculum's surprisingly dark and ancient history. Plus: Find out which book they have chosen as the next Another Bloody Book Club pick. Resources & Sources Mentioned: • 2025 Harris Poll / BD survey https://news.bd.com/2025-01-09-New-Survey-Finds-Women-Are-Skipping-Their-OB-GYN-Exams,-Increasing-Risks-for-Cervical-Cancer 
 • American College of Obstetricians and Gynocologists (ACOG), Updated Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines, 2026 httphttps://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2026/04/acog-publishes-updated-cervical-cancer-screening-guidance
 • An Innovative Design for the Vaginal Speculum, Medical Devices: Evidence and Research, 2023

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10542509/

• Reinventing the Vaginal Speculum: Women’s Health, University of California, Irvine, 2023 https://engineering.uci.edu/news/2023/9/reinventing-vaginal-speculum-women-s-health

• Screening for Cervical Cancer, Obstetrics & Gynocology, 2026 https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/fulltext/2026/07000/screening_for_cervical_cancer.30.aspx

• Wellcome Collection's history of the speculum, including the Pompeii find and the Sims/Graves lineage https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/a-nasty-history-of-the-vaginal-speculum


• The controversial Dr. J. Marion Sims, International Urogynecology Journal, 2020 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32328679/

• Statue celebrates 'Mothers of Gynecology' at Black women's birthing conference, NPR, 2022 https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089062082/statue-celebrates-mothers-of-gynecology-at-black-womens- birthing-conference

New speculum designs:

◦Bouquet Speculum™ — five-petal radial design
 https://viospex.com/about-the-product 
 ◦Lilium — three-petal rubber speculum from TU Delft researchers Tamara Hoveling and Ariadna Izcara Gual https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ide/delft-design-stories/new-vaginal-speculum-design-might-motivate-women-to-go-for-health-checkups 
 ◦OneSpec — tampon-sized, self-insertable design from UC Irvine's Feminora team https://engineering.uci.edu/news/2023/9/reinventing-vaginal-speculum-women-s-health • O&G Magazine roundup of alternative speculum options, 2026 https://www.ogmagazine.org.au/28/2-28/new-and-emerging-alternative-speculum-options/ 
 Our July Another Bloody Book Club pick: The New Perimenopause by Dr. Mary Claire Haver
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777456/the-new-perimenopause-by-mary-claire-haver-md/
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