Back in May of this year, the FDA approved a new method of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing in a healthcare setting. Rather than a standard Pap smear performed with a speculum -- a test dreaded by ...

Plenty about a Pap smear—the airborne straddle, the clunky metal speculum—can make it, at best, awkward, and at worst, painful or traumatizing. And thanks to a new type of cervical cancer screening ...

Federal guidelines are expanding the options for cervical cancer screenings beyond the often-disliked Pap smear. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

The Teal Wand allows you to screen yourself for cervical cancer from the comfort of your home. This is everything you need to know. Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was previously the lifestyle editor at ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Medical Devices Advisory Committee Microbiology Panel unanimously voted that Roche Molecular Systems’ cobas viral DNA test is safe and effective as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Pap smear involves a medical provider inserting a speculum into the vagina, then swabbing the cervix before sending the sample to a lab. Reporter Maybe you had a bad experience with your last Pap ...

A cervical smear is a test that uses cells collected with a small spatula or soft brush from the uterine cervix. It may be used to test for human papilloma virus (HPV) DNA (HPV testing) or ...

The American Experience documentary, “The Cancer Detectives” is available to stream on the PBS app. In the case of “The Cancer Detectives,” the pair of filmmakers had a lot of decisions to make to get ...