B O S T O N, March 20 -- How do women know that when they get their Pap smear it is being diagnosed correctly? Well, most of the time pathology technicians and doctors get it right. But despite the ...

WASHINGTON, January 18, 2022 – One of the key steps in diagnosing or treating many bloodborne diseases is to perform a blood smear, where a drop of blood is spread across a microscope slide for ...

For more than 50 years, doctors have used Papanicolaou tests—better known as Pap smears—to screen women for cervical cancer. But researchers now report that a newer test gives a more accurate ...

The very common Peripheral Blood Smear review, used time and again for diagnostics, is typically conducted by a human analyzing the sample on a glass slide under a microscope and checking cell types, ...

It was a typical busy morning. A flurry of people in and out of my office along with a growing stack of slides. I picked up the next slide, a pap smear. The requisition stated “24 yo, routine pap.” ...

Women over 21 years old should be getting a Pap smear every three years. It's a crucial test that looks for cervical cancer. It can be a little uncomfortable — but it's over in a few seconds. Cervical ...

New research shows that a portable, battery-operated fluorescence microscope, which costs $240, stacks up nicely against devices that retail for as much as $40,000 in diagnosing signs of tuberculosis.

Dr. Vaishali Joshi, a senior Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at Kokilaben Ambani Hospital, Mumbai says, “Pap Smear is one of the preventive tests to pick up the precancerous or early cancerous changes in ...

Researchers have developed devices to automate blood smears. Their devices, called autohaem smear and smear+, can consistently create high-quality smears equivalent to those created by human experts, ...