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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.
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What to know about the first at-home Pap smear approved by the FDA
The wand developed by Teal Health allows patients to self-collect a vaginal sample and mail it to a lab for testing. The sample is analyzed for high-risk strains of human papillomavirus ...
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At-home cervical cancer screening test gets FDA approval. How it works, availability
an at-home vaginal sample self-collection device created by Teal Health, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to USA TODAY. A prescription device, the Teal Wand will allow ...
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First at-home test to screen for cervical cancer approved by FDA
May 9 (UPI) --The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Teal Health to provide the nation's first at-home test kit to screen for cervical cancer. The Teal Wand, which will be ...
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 ...