The tool will allow women to screen for HPV, which causes almost all cases of cervical cancer, without visiting a doctor.

The wand developed by Teal Health allows patients to self-collect a vaginal sample and mail it to a lab for testing.

The at-home Pap smear is just as accurate as a doctor's office test for cervical cancer.

The FDA just approved a new cervical cancer screening tool called the Teal Wand. Here's what you need to know about it and ...

Mothers are always on the go, taking care of everyone else other than their health. And as they grow old, the risk of disease ...

The FDA has approved its first at-home collection kit that allows women to screen themselves for human papillomavirus (HPV) ...

M baye explained that a Pap smear is a screening test that checks for abnormal cells on the cervix that could lead to cervical cancer. "Pap smears are important because they can c ...

Teal Health, the maker of an at-home cervical cancer screening test, says it will give patients an alternative to in-clinic pap smears.

A Pap smear is a procedure that screens for cervical cancer by testing cells for any abnormalities. If your Pap results are abnormal that does not mean you have cancer, and more likely indicates HPV.

The Papanicolaou (Pap) smear is commonly used to screen for cervical cancer and since its introduction in organized screening programmes in resource-rich countries it has been successful in ...

“It's called a Pap smear, because you would literally take your spatula, scrape it across the cervix, and then smear that ...

If the Pap smear is abnormal, a colposcopy may be performed. A colposcopy is an office procedure that uses a special microscope (colposcope) to examine the tissue lining the cervix and walls of the ...