George Papanicolaou, the Greek doctor who invented the "Pap smear" in 1928, has saved the lives of countless women.

Regular Pap smear screenings are a vital part of women’s healthcare, helping detect and prevent cervical cancer at an early ...

Cervical cancer screening is one of the best success stories in health care. Since the 1970s, the death rate from cervical ...

Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to explore how a new Pap smear alternative may help prevent deaths from cervical ...

The self-test device that Mayo Clinic will use is the Evalyn Brush. The collection brush is housed inside a plastic tube, ...

In this week’s Healthier Together, KIRO 7′s Ranji Sinha sat down with Dr. Nicole Saint Clair, Executive Medical Director of Regence BlueShield, to discuss the issues around cervical cancer. Dr. Saint ...

A Pap test (also called Pap smear) is a screening test in which the doctor inserts a speculum into a woman’s vagina and takes a sample of surface tissue with a special brush. The sample is examined to ...

Cervical Cancer Prevention Week 2025 is a timely reminder of the importance of being proactive and aware when it comes to our health. As mums, it's easy to place ourselves and our own health lower ...

Blow-dry brushes may seem like a new invention, but they’ve actually been around since the ’80s. While the blow-dry brushes of the past were cumbersome, today’s iterations are more ...

January marks Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Cervical cancer is the fourth leading cancer in women — but fortunately, it is both preventable and treatable.

Cervical screening — also known as a smear test or Pap smear — is an important part ... conducting the screening then uses a soft brush to collect cell samples from the cervix.