If you feel pretty damn proud of yourself for scheduling a Pap smear or pelvic exam, we don’t blame you. This kind of preventive care is incredibly important but also easy to put off or cut from your ...

More than half of pelvic examinations and almost three-quarters of Pap tests performed on young U.S. women from 2011 through 2017 were potentially unnecessary, a study published in JAMA Internal ...

Three million people receive abnormal Pap smear results each year, but less than one percent are diagnosed with cervical cancer.

No one likes the sound of any medical test coming back as “abnormal,” and furthermore, no one likes the sound of human papillomavirus (HPV). When I heard those two words in the same sentence, I was, ...

Pap smears are screening tools to detect any abnormal changes in cervical cells which may indicate cancer or HPV.

More than half of bimanual pelvic exams (BPE) given to young women aged 15 to 20 years are likely unnecessary, according to estimates from a study published online today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Every year millions of women trek to their gynecologist or other healthcare provider and reluctantly climb into the stirrups. Though no one particularly likes a pelvic exam, most women put up with the ...

Women in the United States have been accustomed to having a cervical cancer screening test (or Pap smear) every year with their annual exam. Pap smears have improved the health of American women, ...

Leading medical groups now say pelvic exams are unnecessary for nonpregnant women who have no symptoms of an STI. Credit: Photo by Taylor Hugh on Unsplash The unwarranted exams and tests are not only ...

An increasing number of women will no longer need annual testing for cervical cancer, say guidelines issued Thursday — the third such advice to doctors in the last year. The American College of ...

The FDA approved the first at-home cervical cancer screening in May. Texas is the eighth state to have access to the test as ...

Women under the age of 21 no longer need pelvic examinations or cervical cancer screenings such as Pap smear, a new study suggests. Image Credit: Iryna Inshyna / Shutterstock.com In the United States, ...