At-home HPV test kits to be offered to thousands of women in England

At-home HPV test kits to be offered to thousands of women in England

Getty Images For the first time, at-home HPV tests will be offered to some women in England Women who have delayed coming forward for cervical screening will be offered a test to be taken at home, NHS England has said. The DIY test kits, available from January, contain a long cotton-wool bud to swab the … Read more

DIY kits could boost cervical-cancer checks by one million

DIY kits could boost cervical-cancer checks by one million

2 hours ago By James Gallagher, @JamesTGallagher, Health and science correspondent, BBC News Getty Images The cervix is the canal joining the vagina and the womb More than one million extra women could have life-saving cervical-cancer checks if the NHS adopted do-it-yourself testing, researchers estimate. The team at King’s College London said the results of its self-testing trial … Read more

Row over gifting of make-up kits with condoms at mass wedding in Madhya Pradesh 

Row over gifting of make-up kits with condoms at mass wedding in Madhya Pradesh 

A political controversy was triggered in Madhya Pradesh after condoms and birth control pills were found in make-up kits gifted to brides during a mass marriage programme under a government scheme in Jhabua district on Monday.  Earlier, as many as 296 couples tied the knot under the Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah/Nikah Yojana, and when the make-up … Read more

Leftover Opioids? Mailed Kits Double Rate of Proper Disposal

Leftover Opioids? Mailed Kits Double Rate of Proper Disposal

By Robert Preidt HealthDay ReporterHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, May 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Could giving surgery patients ready-to-use mailed disposal kits for unused opioids lower the risk of abuse of the drugs? Yes, claims a new study that found patients with unused opioid pain pills are much more likely to dispose of them properly when … Read more

FDA Warns of Counterfeit Home COVID Test Kits

FDA Warns of Counterfeit Home COVID Test Kits

By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, May 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning Americans to watch out for phony at-home, over-the-counter COVID-19 tests that look a lot like the real things. The counterfeit test kits may put you at risk of unknowingly … Read more