Women now have an alternative to the Pap smear as a screening test for cervical cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved an at-home screening test. As Reuters reported, Pap ...

Update - U.S. Women Nationwide Can Now Screen for Cervical Cancer at Home With the Teal Wand in Less Than 5 Minutes Starting Wednesday, January 7, women in every single U.S. state can complete their ...

Testing for high-risk human papillomaviruses every five years – even with a self-collected sample – is the “preferred screening strategy” for cervical cancer starting at age 30, according to a new ...

An initiative at Kaiser Permanente Washington suggests that providing self-collect cervical cancer test kits for patients (to ...

Cervical cancer is often curable when diagnosed in its initial stages and is highly preventable if pre-cancerous abnormalities are caught early. Yet many individuals diagnosed with cervical cancer in ...

While cervical screening appointments – during which a clinician retrieves a sample of cells from the cervix to test for high-risk HPV, which can go on to cause cancer – are currently offered to all ...

In an effort to combat the prevalence of cervical cancer in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the first ever at-home cervical cancer screening kit. On Friday, May 9, the ...

In Texas, Pap smears can now be done at home. Teal Health began developing its wand more than five years ago to make screening easier to access and to allow women to avoid the discomfort of a pelvic ...

New federal guidelines will make it easier for women to get screened for cervical cancer. According to the new recommendations by the Health Resources and Services Administration, women between the ...

Jacqueline Linnes, at left, and biomedical engineering graduate student Sayeh Dowlatshahi assemble paper-based devices using tweezers. (Purdue University photo/Charles Jischke) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – ...

I recently went for my smear test and the length of time the appointment took left me stunned. It wasn’t my first time - I’m 35 and women are invited for cervical cancer screening through the NHS from ...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) causes most cases of cervical cancer. However, other factors such as smoking, having a weak immune system, and long-term use of birth control pills can increase a person’s ...