The concept is simple. Patients swab themselves with the wand then send it back to Teal Health, the company that makes the device, for analysis. It’s looking for traces of HPV, the virus to blame for ...

In clinical trials, the accuracy of self-testing with Teal’s wand matched that of a cancer screening performed in a doctor’s ...

Kara Egan founded Teal Health during the pandemic, looking to make it easier for women to get preventive cervical cancer ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has secured approval to Teal Health’s at-home vaginal sample self-collection device ...

Pap smears are, at worst, a painful, crampy, or traumatizing experience; and at best, awkward as hell. It’s only natural to ...

The startup’s test, Teal Wand, detects human papillomavirus (HPV), which is responsible for nearly all cervical cancers, ...

The Teal Wand is an at-home vaginal self-collection device intended to test for 14 types of high-risk HPV that have the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Teal Wand as the first alternative to in-office Pap smears, which many ...

And, according to Teal Health co-founder and CEO Kara Egan, the Teal Wand will revolutionize the way women approach pelvic exams. “Generally, no one enjoys going to the OB-GYN for a routine Pap ...

Women now have a new way to check their risk for cervical cancer — from the comfort of their own home. The U.S. Food and Drug ...

For the first time, the FDA has just approved a device that lets people screen for cervical cancer from home. Known as the ...

The FDA has approved Teal Health's at-home test for HPV detection, which may help expand access to cervical cancer screening ...