Saturday Pap test appointment availability improves cervical cancer screening rates. By offering a Saturday clinic for Papanicolaou (Pap) tests, physicians improved cervical cancer screening rates ...

FORT LEE, Va. (Jan. 19, 2017) -- January is a perfect time to review steps toward having a healthier year. This includes a reminder for women to consider age-appropriate health care screenings. Since ...

Women ages 30 and older can now use a swab to collect their own vaginal samples to screen for cervical cancer, according to new guidelines from a national health task force. Draft recommendations ...

HealthDay News — A major change in Papanicolaou (Pap) test guidelines introduced in 2009 may have had an unintended consequence: Some young women are missing out on screening for chlamydia, according ...

New cervical cancer screening recommendations out Tuesday may have started to make old-fashioned Pap smears a thing of the past for women over 30. Most women may opt for the human papillomavirus test, ...

A pap smear screening is one of most effective ways of preventing cervical cancer. But the screening can be frustrating to do regularly—and downright uncomfortable to have performed. Women's expert Dr ...

"So, did Grandma ever have a Pap smear?" A strange question for a son to ask his mom, as I did last Thursday, but it came to mind because of careHPV. The careHPV test is a quick, simple DNA test for ...

A man named Georgios Papanicolaou invented the Pap smear, but Elizabeth Stern helped figure out how to interpret it. stevanovicigor/iStockPhoto Today, women ...