Dear Doctor K: I’ve had a Pap test every year for 20 years, since I was about 25. It’s always normal. Do I still need one every year? Dear Reader: The answer used to be yes. The reason was that doing ...

Advertisements can be very persuasive -- whether they’re promoting a snack food, a toy or even a medical test. If you’ve watched much television lately, you may have seen a commercial touting the ...

The pap smear (or pap test) is one of the cornerstones of women's health. It was introduced in the 1940's as a way to screen for abnormal cervical cells. Starting at the age of 21 women are ...

Cervical cancer is largely preventable through vaccination and regular screening, but it is the fourth most common cancer in women across the globe. This chronic condition is caused by persistent ...

Many women can safely extend their cervical cancer screening interval to three years, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. "For the last 15 years guidelines have ...

Robin Reath was getting a routine checkup recently when her doctor brought up something new about cervical cancer screening. "We might be doing something a little bit different than what we've been ...

Days after a government advisory panel rolled back its recommendations on mammography screening for breast cancer, another influential group issued revised guidelines on the use of Pap smears to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Roughly over 79 million Americans have HPV, typically in your teens to 20s but also many people over the age of 30,” Navya Mysore ...

Too few doctors follow U.S. guidelines for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and cervical cancer screening, according to a new study. A survey of 366 obstetricians-gynecologists in the United ...

Screening for oral cancer with the Pap test is an effective, noninvasive method to spot the disease, according to study by Indian researchers. Pap tests, traditionally used to screen cervical cancer ...

Recently, The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists released their report recommending women get fewer pap smears than previously advised. The report, released in the wake of the ...