U.S. officials have approved the first cervical cancer test that allows women to collect their own sample at home.

If eligible, the collection kit will be shipped directly to your home. Though the Teal Wand provides a new opportunity to test for HPV at home, in-person pap smears will remain the best option ...

To use it, women request a kit online ... also noted that Pap smears aren’t even “the recommended way of screening” anymore, with modern medicine preferring the HPV test “because of ...

Kits are expected to first become available ... Women who test positive for HPV will be referred for a traditional Pap smear. Those who do not test positive are not considered at risk of cervical ...

The first at-home screening kit for human ... 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 three ...

The newly FDA-approved test was developed by San Francisco-based startup Teal Health. Like traditional pap smears, Teal Health ... study said that at-home kits “provide a comfortable, convenient ...

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 FDA.

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 screening ...

Lots of Americans on TikTok have been in disbelief after learning that people in other countries apparently have the option to perform Pap smears on themselves via a mail-order kit, in the comfort ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators have approved the first cervical cancer testing kit that allows women to ... Currently, HPV tests and Pap smears are performed at a health clinic or doctor ...