September is Sexual Wellness Month. And in honor of the special occasion, women are celebrating their bodies by taking charge of their sexual and reproductive health. A pap smear is a medical ...

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 ...

Sophia Yen, M.D., M.P.H. Women’s Wellness / Reproductive Health / Acne / Adolescent Medicine Sophia Yen, M.D., M.P.H., is the Chief Medical Officer and co-founder ...

New guidelines for cervical-cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21 and be screened less often than previously recommended. The advice, from the American College of ...

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 ...

At what age should a teenage girl have her first Pap smear and gynecologic exam? Pelvic exams and Pap smears are not necessary in healthy adolescent girls who are not sexually active and who do not ...

When Noa Fleischacker had her first pap smear, she was struck by an unbearable, knife-like pain as soon as the speculum went in. “I literally was going to jump off the table,” Fleischacker recalled.

The incidence of death rates from cervical cancer in the U.S. has dropped almost 50 percent since the widespread use of Pap tests began in the early 1970s. But, cervical cancer still remains the third ...

Do you have any unusual pain or discomfort? What medical problems do other members of your family have? These are just some of the questions young women may be asked at their annual wellness exam.

Cervical cancer is often curable when diagnosed in its initial stages and is highly preventable if pre-cancerous abnormalities are caught early. Yet many individuals diagnosed with cervical cancer in ...

The first shipments of some self-collection HPV tests for cervical cancer screening are currently on their way to doctors’ offices across the United States. In May, the US Food and Drug Administration ...

(CNN) — The first shipments of some self-collection HPV tests for cervical cancer screening are currently on their way to doctors’ offices across the United States. (CNN) — The first shipments of some ...