Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans both cover regular PAP smears as part of preventive health services. PAP smears fall under the category of preventive health services. They help ...

There is nothing more terrifying to me than going for a routine pap smear check. The image of the metal speculum and the manoeuvring from my first examination still replays like a bad memory.

Alternatives to the often dreaded pap smear may be on the horizon for cervical cancer screenings. Typically, the procedure involves inserting a device called a speculum, which helps open the ...

Women will have an alternative Pap smear option starting this fall, the New York Times reported. The new option is a swab to screen for cervical cancer, rather than the speculum, which has been ...

(COPAN Diagnostics) An alternative to the traditional Pap smear will be available in the United States starting this fall but Clark County’s major health care providers don’t have immediate ...

also called a Pap smear. During these cervical cancer screenings, doctors usually insert a speculum in the vagina to access the cervix, which can be painful or uncomfortable. But being able to ...

Q: It's time for my daughter to have a Pap smear, but she's putting it off because it was so painful last time. I wonder if switching to a female doctor might help? It's a very unpleasant test and ...

For some women, getting a Pap smear is hell. Since her early 20s, Kevinn Poree has suffered from chronic vaginal pain — pain that led her to scream in agony the first time a gynecologist tried t ...

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 ...