What's available for at-home HPV testing in Canada right now? A private healthcare provider now offers at-home vaginal swab collection kits for HPV testing. (Photo from Switchhealth.ca) ...

Several countries now offer at-home vaginal swabs to detect HPV status in place of traditional cervical cancer screening, but ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Teal Health to provide the nation's first at-home test kit to screen for cervical cancer.

Instead of a pelvic exam, women can gently swab a vaginal sample, which the doctors can use in their cervical cancer screening.

Cervical cancer is preventable, but only if you catch it early. Cultural and personal barriers have often meant that women ...

And, yes, ask your health care provider about whether you can do a self-collected swab for HPV as part of your regular cervical cancer screening.

A new study suggests an HPV DNA test could make cervical cancer screening more accessible to women in developing countries.

Cervical cancer screening programs in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) need to be strengthened. One of the challenges is insufficient health care personnel to achieve optimal coverage. We ...

Smears and Swabs Smears and Swabs I read with interest the article "Quantitative Image Analysis Gives More Power to the Pathologist."1 However, I must draw your attention to an inaccuracy. In the ...

More than 4,000 women collected their own vaginal swabs to help scientists build a reference for the understudied healthy ...

Women in England who have missed screening appointments will be mailed at-home HPV testing kits in a potentially "game-changing" bid to increase participation in cervical screening.