The U.S. Food and Drug Administration late Tuesday approved a new way for people to screen for signs of cervical cancer. Patients using the new method will self-screen with a swab at the doctors ...

A new JAMA study shows over 60 percent preferred clinic-based testing, 20 percent preferred at-home self-sampling tests and over 18 percent were unsure. However, women who had experienced prejudice or ...

The Pap test — a staple of women’s health checkups for generations — is one of medicine’s greatest success stories, saving the lives of countless women by detecting abnormal cells on the cervix that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA today approved the cobas HPV Test for women aged at least 25 years to be used alone to aid a health care ...

For decades, women between the ages of 21 and 69 were advised to get annual screening exams for cervical cancer. In 2009, however, accumulating scientific evidence led major guideline groups to agree ...

April 22, 2009 — The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has issued a committee opinion on routine pelvic examination and cervical cytology screening that will be published in ...

First HPV Test for Primary Cervical Cancer The FDA has approved Roche's cobas HPV Test, the first human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test for women ages >25 that can be used alone to help assess the need ...

The implementation of the National Health Service Cervical Screening Programme (NHSCSP) in 1988 resulted in a substantial reduction in the overall incidence of cervical cancer (Quinn et al, 1999). The ...

Women in Scotland are being encouraged to attend their cervical cancer screenings after new data shows decrease in ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test for women 25 and older that can be used to determine whether these women should have additional ...