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 insides. In the age of AI chatbots and self-driving cars, how has no one ...

New guidelines now allow self-swab HPV testing, including one test that can be done at home and mailed in HPV self-collected screening is recommended every 3 years if the test result is negative Women ...

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 ...

There's a new way to screen for high-risk HPV, a viral infection that can lead to cervical cancer. This alternative method of collecting samples for cervical cancer screening doesn't require a ...

Women and people with cervixes should have the option to use a self-swab human papillomavirus (HPV) test as part of a cervical cancer screen, the United States Preventative Services Task Force said in ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently greenlit Roche Diagnostics’ vaginal self-swab human papilloma virus test for cervical cancer screening. This week on the Morning ...

I read with interest the article "Quantitative Image Analysis Gives More Power to the Pathologist." 1 However, I must draw your attention to an inaccuracy. In the first paragraph, "A woman visits her ...

Self-Swab HPV Tests Now Supported for Cervical Cancer Screening FRIDAY, Dec. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Routine cervical cancer screening is getting a new option: Self-swab HPV tests, according to ...