The Food and Drug Administration just approved an at home test that could be an optional alternative to a yearly pap smear.

The first at-home cervical cancer screening test has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to the product's manufacturer. It may offer an alternative to traditional in-person ...

The new test, made by Teal Health, involves swabbing the vagina with a spongelike tool rather than inserting a speculum and scraping cells from the cervix, as health care providers do in Pap smears.

Legs harnessed in an airborne straddle. Feeble pleas from your ob-gyn to scooch up. Cold, clunky metal speculum pushed into your vagina, followed by clanging and scraping. Pap smears are, at worst ...

Pap smears are terrible. Every year, I stare at the ceiling and try my hardest to ignore the scraping of my insides. In the ...

and cervical cancer risk by mailing a sample to a lab—where it is analyzed by the same Pap smear test used in clinics. Developed by Teal Health, the Teal Wand is available with a prescription.

Women can use a wand to collect a vaginal sample, then mail it to a lab that will screen for cervical cancer. The device will ...

An 86% majority of the study participants said they would be more likely to test on time with a Teal Wand. Physicians generally recommend women ages 21 to 65 get a pap smear at least once every ...

Victory has a thousand fathers, as they say, while defeat is an orphan. Yet for Singapore’s ruling PAP, one of the world’s most successful political parties, such is its reality that even when ...

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The People’s Action Party (PAP) may have had an uninterrupted streak of governing post-independence Singapore for almost 60 years, but this record did not stop some party activists and members ...

McKay is charged with the homicide of his estranged wife, Monica B. McKay. The prosecution has requested DNA testing on evidence that may be consumed in the process. The defense argues that this ...