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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Courtney Pochin

Superdrug launches world's first saliva pregnancy test - how it works and how it's evolved

Last year an estimated 12.5 million pregnancy tests were used in the UK - with women having to pee on a stick or collect urine to find out if they were expecting.

This has been the way since the 1970s when the first home pregnancy tests hit the shelves in pharmacies, meaning women didn't have to go to the doctors for an answer and could get results in private.

However, this is all set to change once again as Superdrug has launched the world's first-ever oral pregnancy test, Salistick, which uses saliva instead of urine to detect pregnancy.

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