Pap smears save many lives, but many women avoid the uncomfortable and intrusive procedure. New self-test kits could change ...

Women’s health champions like us cheered in January when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued a draft ...

(NewsNation) — Cervical cancer screenings may feel less daunting for some by fall, as two companies roll out self-collection kits for use in ... A traditional Pap test requires patients to ...

and any pre-cancerous changes can be detected with HPV tests and Pap smears. Continued advancements to increase accessibility for cervical cancer testing now include the newly approved self ...

that’s instead of undergoing a Pap smear or HPV test that uses ... have the tests that can be used with self-collected ...

Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to explore how a new Pap smear alternative may help prevent deaths from cervical ...

Cervical cancer screening is one of the best success stories in health care. Since the 1970s, the death rate from cervical ...

Some patients in London will now be able to access at-home smear tests as part of a groundbreaking pilot scheme. Here are all the key facts. More than 31,000 women and people with cervixes in ...

The self-test device that Mayo Clinic will use is the Evalyn Brush. The collection brush is housed inside a plastic tube, ...

Could the FDA’s recently approved Pap smear ... to self-collect since an initiative was launched in 2022. By March 2024, more than 1 in 4 screenings were done using collection kits in Australia.

For decades, a Pap ... self-swab approved in May 2024 by the Food and Drug Administration might help people avoid the invasive procedure—and save lives. Patients will be able to use an at-home ...