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 ...

Researchers have found that testing period blood for signs of cervical cancer could be an accurate way of screening for the disease. Read: no more having a speculum shoved into you by a stranger every ...

Earlier this year the Food and Drug Administration approved a new human papillomavirus test that allows for self-collection of samples in a health care setting, thereby removing what many say is an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Let's be honest: Pap smears are terrible. Every year, I stare at the ceiling and try my hardest to ignore the scraping of my ...

Teal Health has about 40,000 people on a nationwide waitlist as it rolls the product out state-by-state. Texas was chosen because of the size of the state and how many Texans were on the waitlist. The ...

Say goodbye to that painful speculum. Soon, women across the U.S. will be able to conduct their very own at-home Pap smear test, thanks to a new tool approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

A Scottish woman shares her “embarrassment” over regularly ignoring pap smear reminders and worrying symptoms of heavy ...

A mum had negative smear tests her whole life before discovering she had a rare cervical cancer that’s not picked up on them. Helen Swan, 54, suffered from weight loss, extreme fatigue and bleeding ...