A mother of three was blindsided by a cervical cancer diagnosis just days before her 30th birthday — despite experiencing ...

A New Talker Research study found that women avoid seeing doctors for reasons like fear of blame, dismissal, or misdiagnosis - or, in other words, due to gender bias.

I was mad at God, mad at the world, and mad at all the healthy people who didn’t have to get their life put on hold,” said ...

A mother diagnosed with cervical cancer more than three years after a failure to refer her to specialists when her smear test ...

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

One of the most effective ways to prevent cervical cancer is through a Pap smear test—a simple yet powerful screening tool ...

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

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr. Anjali Kumar, director of obstetrics and gynaecology at CK Birla Hospital, Gurugram ...

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

Villous atrophy occurs when your intestinal villi—the microscopic, finger-like tentacles that line the wall of your small intestine—erode away, leaving a virtually flat surface. Celiac disease, an ...

Experts advise. Image credit: Oleksii Syrotkin/Stocksy. Cervical screening — also known as a smear test or Pap smear — is an important part of looking after the health of female bodies.

Roughly 80% of women will get human papillomavirus (HPV) in their lifetime. For many, especially those who have gotten an HPV vaccine, the virus will go away on its own within two years.