Cervical cancer is preventable, but kills thousands each year — in part because women aren't regularly screened for it. A new test allows people to test themselves at home and mail in the results.

Despite medical innovations, maternal mortality rates in the US remain high, especially compared with those of similarly wealthy countries.

Many women dread getting their regular Pap smears. The procedure, which involves scraping cells from the cervix to check for ...

U.S. regulators have approved the first cervical cancer testing kit that allows women to collect their own sample at home ...

Can Pap smear also detect HPV? Sicam clarifies that there’s a separate HPV DNA testing that checks for the presence of human papillomavirus, whose strains are linked to cervical cancer.

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 figured out a less ...

A Pap smear, or Pap test, is a screening tool to check for cervical cancer and cervical cell changes. But occasionally, even when there are no precancerous cells, the tests can reveal evidence of ...

A proposal for male technicians to carry out breast screening has prompted concern from Kemi Badenoch – and many female ...

A Papanicolaou test, also known as a Pap smear or Pap test, checks for abnormal cervical cells ... "One of the bonuses of implementing [HPV testing] now is that the machines we're using are the same ...

In this study, a semiautomatic PC-based cellular image analysis system was developed for segmenting nuclear and cytoplasmic contours and for computing morphometric and textual features to train ...