FDA approves first at-home cervical cancer screening test, a pap smear alternative, company says
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The maker of an at-home cervical cancer screening test said Friday it has won approval from the Food and Drug Administration, giving patients an alternative to in-clinic pap smears.
The screening test, called Teal Wand, from women's health company Teal Health, is available for those aged 25 to 65 at average risk. It tests for human papillomavirus, or HPV, the virus that causes nearly all cervical cancers.
The approval comes after a study from the company confirmed self-collected samples using their device perform as accurately as clinician-collected samples.
Dr. Casey Means, President Trump's nominee to serve as the U.S. surgeon general, is a prominent proponent of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "MAHA," or "Make America Healthy Again," agenda. Her work has largely focused on metabolic dysfunction — but what is it?
The big announcement that President Trump teased earlier this week in the Oval Office is a "most favored nation" plan to cut Medicare drug prices, sources told CBS News.
The Department of Health and Human Services has granted an exemption to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire a new class of its disease detectives, multiple CDC officials said, averting a feared halving of the highly selective fellowship.
AI-generated accounts impersonating people with Down syndrome are spreading across social media, according to an analysis by CBS News Confirmed. Many of these artificial intelligence-backed profiles are gaining followers faster than real disability advocates — and they're making money from it.
On the eastern plains of Colorado, in a county of less than 6,000 people, Lincoln Health runs the only hospital within a 75-minute drive. The facility struggles financially, given its small size and the area's tiny population.
Getting a shingles vaccine may help with more than the viral infection that causes painful rashes — new research shows it can also lower the risk of heart disease.
If your seasonal sneezing and other symptoms are worse this year, you're not alone — allergy sufferers are seeing (and feeling the effects of) the pollen outside.
More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago, according to a federal report released Friday.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will ask the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop new guidance for treating measles with drugs and vitamins, an HHS spokesperson said.
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that medications widely used for diabetes and obesity may offer significant benefits for patients with liver disease, adding to the growing list of potential applications for these popular drugs.
Off Grand Isle, Louisiana, is a sportfishing paradise, where dolphins escort Captain Craig Bielkiewicz's charter boat into the Gulf of Mexico. He wanted to show off what matters there: the redfish are biting, and the dolphins are evidence of that fact.
Diabetes deaths in the U.S. have fallen to some of the lowest rates in years, according to new preliminary figures published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reversing a surge in mortality that was seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.