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This company wants to replace your Pap smear — and promises its DIY cancer screening is less painful
A new, FDA-approved device wants “to give women the option to screen comfortably from home at their convenience,” co-founder Kara Egan told The Post.
Pap smears suck. This tampon-like device lets you screen for cervical cancer at home
Teal Health designed a less invasive way to screen for cervical cancer, and it just received FDA approval. As a woman in the ...
You Can Soon Start Testing For HPV at Home — No Pap Required
The FDA has approved Teal Health's at-home test for HPV detection, which may help expand access to cervical cancer screening ...
FDA approves first cervical cancer screening device that can be used at home, company says
To get screened for cervical cancer, patients in the United States may no longer need to put their feet in those awkward ...
First at-home HPV test approved by FDA, could replace Pap smear
The first at-home cervical cancer screening test has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to the ...
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Pap smear safe way to screen for cervical cancer, says MakatiMed gynecologist
I’m really looking forward to my Pap smear today—said no woman ever” is a sentiment shared by legions of females for good ...
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The At-Home Teal Health Cervical Cancer Screening Is Now FDA-Approved—and Could Replace Your Pap
Cold, clunky metal speculum pushed into your vagina, followed by clanging and scraping. Pap smears are, at worst, a painful, crampy, or traumatizing experience; and at best, awkward as hell.
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FDA approves first cervical cancer screening device that can be used at home, company says
To get screened for cervical cancer, patients in the United States may no longer need to put their feet in those awkward stirrups ... also known as a Pap test or Pap smear, involves examining ...