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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teal Health’s Teal Wand enables people ages 25-65 years old to screen for cervical cancer at home — no speculum or stirrups ...

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 exam, said Dr. Liz Swenson, Teal Health's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have validated India's first homegrown HPV test. The new and improved test could make cervical cancer screening ...

The study, published in the International Journal of Cancer, found that point-of-care tests have the potential to become ...

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. – ...

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 ...

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 ...