Here are all the key facts. More than 31,000 women and people with cervixes in London are being offered at-home DIY smear test kits on the NHS for the first time, in a move experts hope will boost ...

The first shipment of FDA-approved cervical screening self-tests has gone out with hopes they will help prevent cervical ...

Your sample would be tested for cell changes that could go on to cause cancer (a Pap test ... does not replace the need for regular smear tests.' How it works: This 'non-invasive at-home tampon ...

PherDal is the only FDA-cleared, sterile, at-home insemination kit in the country. Over the last few years, 75 babies have ...

There’s now another leap forward that stands to even further improve cervical cancer rates: at-home HPV testing that makes it more ... and then teaching was named after him, the “Pap” smear. With ...

Rather than a standard Pap smear performed with a speculum ... countries that wide implementation of self-collection kits at ...

The Food and Drug Administration gave the green light for patients to have the option to collect their own vaginal samples ...

"In our eyes this was such a significant improvement that, in good conscience, we could not continue to accept conventional pap smears," Galup says. That decision caused problems for the lab ...

In 2021, 78.1% of women aged 21 to 65 were up to date with their Pap ... home testing to increase accessibility in rural areas," Williams said. A national study is in process to approve home kits.

At-home smear tests should be introduced in Wales, campaigners say. For women aged 25 to 64 a smear test is an effective way of detecting human papillomavirus (HPV) and preventing cervical cancer.