Two studies by a team of researchers led by Luis E. Cuevas and Mohammed Yassin from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and jointly coordinated with Andrew Ramsay at WHO-TDR Special Programme ...

New data are suggesting faster and less comprehensive forms of sputum collection may be available to help clinicians diagnose tuberculosis. Luis E. Cuevas, MD, and colleagues at the Liverpool School ...

Most women with cervical cancer have not participated in Pap-smear screening. Self-sampling of vaginal fluid in combination with high-risk HPV testing may be a method to increase the attendance rate.

Starting at 30, women can collect their own vaginal samples for HPV testing at a doctor’s office. By Roni Caryn Rabin Doctors routinely advise that women undergoing screening for cervical cancer ...

Self-collection will occur in clinical settings such as urgent care or healthcare clinics, and the tests could be available within the coming months. HPV testing is one way to determine a person’s ...

This month sees the end of Pap smears every two years for women aged 18-69 and the start of a new screening regime for cervical cancer. As has been much discussed, women will now start testing at age ...

Two new studies have important implications for the ways in which diagnosis for the endemic infectious disease, tuberculosis (TB), can be done in poor countries. Two studies by a team of researchers ...