Delft, Netherlands, July 14, 2025 (AFP) - Researchers redesign vaginal speculum to ease fear and pain

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2025-07-14

It is cold, hard, metallic and commonly associated with pain. Not a mediaeval torture instrument, but the vaginal speculum used every day around the world for essential gynaecological exams. Two engineers at Delft University in the Netherlands are now rethinking the decades-old design of the speculum -- long dreaded by many patients -- to make it less intimidating and less painful. "I have a lot of experience with the vaginal speculum, unfortunat......

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