The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the country’s first at-home HPV screening device. The test is designed as an alternative to the Pap smear, a procedure that detects precancerous ...
Smear tests are nobody's favourite, but they're a vital part of healthcare. Now, the way you're tested for HPV is changing. From July, invitations for cervical screening will be sent out every five ...
(CBS) -- 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 ...
With efforts being made nationally to increase the uptake of cervical screening, this general practice nurse brings her own ...
A new Galleri blood test detected 75% of cancers without current screening options, with over half found in early stage I or ...
New plans have been announced to shake up the way cervical cancer risk is detected in England: at-home HPV testing kits are set to be offered to women who have missed their cervical smear test ...
A new proposal recommends replacing routine pap smears with HPV testing every five years for women over 30, signaling a serious shift in cervical cancer screening guidelines. reading time 3 minutes ...
Women who have delayed coming forward for cervical screening will be offered a test to be taken at home, NHS England has said. The DIY test kits, available from January, contain a long cotton-wool bud ...
The FDA approved the first at-home cervical cancer screening in May. Texas is the eighth state to have access to the test as ...
The WHO strategic plan for elimination of cervical cancer and how a combination of prevention, screening, and treatment can ...
A mum-of-three is urging women to attend their cervical screenings amid fears new NHS changes could lead to “missed life-saving appointments”. Over the past nine years, teaching assistant Abby Squires ...