Maybe you had a bad experience with your last Pap smear and you’re wary of going back to the ob-gyn. Or maybe you’ve never had one before and are scared to make the appointment. It’s understandable to ...

If you can’t remember when you had your last pap smear, there’s a chance you might be due for another. So how often should you get a pap smear, exactly? We asked Dr. Margo Harrison, MD, OBGYN and Head ...

The pap smear (or pap test) is one of the cornerstones of women's health. It was introduced in the 1940's as a way to screen for abnormal cervical cells. Starting at the age of 21 women are ...

Many of us would choose the pain of a dentist’s chair over the most compassionate and sensitive gynecologist’s examination table. You endure a cold speculum — which is torture enough — then it does ...

I was 23 when I had my first pap smear, and I didn’t even know what the procedure tested for. While out one Saturday evening with three of my girlfriends, I sat in silence as they discussed their most ...

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What the Health host, Noelle Bellow, speaks with Teal Health Cofounder and CEO Kara Egan about the FDA approved sleek new wand for at-home pap tests. The tool, now available to Californians, is being ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Drew Barrymore skipped over the high-profile celebrity interviews and her typical Drew’s News segment to welcome “renowned OBGYN” Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz to The Drew ...

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 the ...

A Pap smear involves a medical provider inserting a speculum into the vagina, then swabbing the cervix before sending the sample to a lab. Credit - Getty Images Maybe you had a bad experience with ...