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 ...
The Food and Drug Administration this week moved to expand screening for potentially lethal cervical cancer by allowing women to collect test samples themselves, a move that reproductive health ...
Roche Diagnostics is looking to a new screening tool to help women learn in a more private way if they are at increased risk for cervical cancer—a self-collection test to identify HPV. With the test, ...
The first shipments of self-collection HPV tests for cervical cancer screening are making their way to labs and health care facilities across the United States. The Food and Drug Administration gave ...
(RTTNews) - Biopharmaceutical company Roche Holding AG (RHHBY), announced on Tuesday that its cobas HPV test for use on the cobas 6800/8800 Systems has been awarded the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Each year, about 11,500 U.S. women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and about 4,000 women die from it, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Photo by Adobe ...
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 ...
Pelvic exams are no one’s idea of fun. No matter how many you’ve done, no matter how prepared you are, that moment when the ice cold speculum wrenches open your vagina never gets more comfortable. As ...
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has updated its cervical cancer screening guidelines to endorse self-collected vaginal specimens for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing, marking a major shift in U.S.