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Cervical cancer is highly preventable with routine screening. To provide people with a cervix a comfortable and private ...
Pap smears are, at worst, a painful, crampy, or traumatizing experience; and at best, awkward as hell. It’s only natural to ...
Teal Health ®, a virtual women's health company on a mission to eliminate cervical cancer, today announced the general ...
In an effort to combat the prevalence of cervical cancer in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the first ever at-home cervical cancer screening kit. On Friday, May 9 ...
U.S. regulators have approved the first cervical cancer testing kit that allows women to collect their own sample at home before shipping it to a laboratory, according to a medical device company.
The maker of an at-home cervical cancer screening test said Friday it has won approval from the Food and Drug Administration, giving patients an alternative to in-clinic pap smears.
THE doctor is in—the mailbox, that is. You can now do self-administered tests for everything from thyroid function to HIV in ...
But offering women an at-home test could prevent 1,000 cases of cervical cancer every year, a study led by Queen Mary University of London with King’s College London found.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first at-home device to help detect cervical cancer. Doctors hope this will be a game changer by encouraging more women to do regular ...
The new cervical cancer test — which tests for strains of human papillomavirus, or HPV — involves a testing swab that's like a tampon, said Dr. Susan Modesitt, a gynecologic oncologist at ...
National News First at-home test kit for cervical cancer approved by the FDA, company says FILE – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md., is photographed, Oct. 14, 2015.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The first at-home test to help women screen for cervical cancer has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Women’s health company Teal Health announced this ...