What’s on the calendar this week? Oh, you know, a Pap smear. But wait: Your period tracking app has an important alert. Your flow’s set to, well, flow in three days, just in time for that Pap smear.

The Food and Drug administration has approved the U.S.'s first at-home alternative to the Pap smear, a procedure generations of women have dreaded and often found painful. The new device by Teal ...

Few scientists can claim as big an impact as Georgios Papanikolaou, inventor of the Pap smear test – the first widely used screening test for cancer. It is estimated that Pap smear screening has ...

Let's be honest: 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 ...

An alternative to conventional cervical screening—otherwise known as smear tests or Pap smears—is now available and may help more women detect the human papillomavirus (HPV) before it becomes cervical ...