Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vaginismus is an involuntary tightening of the vagina, which makes everything from intimacy to Pap smears painful. (Photo: Getty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patients may be able to now use a long swab to collect samples for HPV testing — skipping the sometimes painful pap smear Getty (2 ...

Say goodbye to that painful speculum. Soon, women across the U.S. will be able to conduct their very own at-home Pap smear test, thanks to a new tool approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

No matter how old you are, when your gynecologist delivers the news that you’ve had a “bad” Pap test, a feeling of dread and uncertainty overtakes you. But just how bad is that news? That depends.

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 human papillomavirus is a common sexually transmitted disease that has the capacity to grow into warts and, sometimes, different types of cancers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...