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 ...

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 ...

While nobody likes going for a smear test, screenings are vital in preventing cervical cancer. Despite the fact cervical screenings save thousands of lives each year in the UK, though, uptake has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maybe you had a bad experience with your last Pap smear and you’re wary of going back to the ob-gyn. Or maybe you’ve never had one ...

390487 02: (FILE PHOTO) Close up of cancer cells in the cervix. Cancer of the uterine cervix, the portion of the uterus that is attached to the top of the vagina. (Photo by American Cancer ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first at-home screening test for cervical cancer, the product’s maker announced on Friday. The DIY test could serve as an alternative to ...

We all know that smear tests are extremely important and could end up saving our lives, yet many women still find themselves putting them off. It's easy to just pop that letter in a drawer and tell ...