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FILE - "Cervical cancer is largely preventable, yet screening rates in the U.S. continue to lag, and the FDA approval of this at-home Teal Wand self-collection device is a critical step forward ...

HPV is a common viral infection spread through sexual contact. According to the Teal Health website, Teal Wand collection kits are tested at Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment-certified labs.

Teal Health said Friday the Food and Drug Administration approved its Teal Wand for home use, offering a new way to collect vaginal samples that can detect the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer.

With the Teal Wand, women are testing a sample for HPV (human papillomavirus), the virus that causes nearly all cervical cancers, using the same highly accurate HPV test that medical guidelines ...

Teal Wand's clinical sensitivity is 96%, matching the performance of clinician-collected samples, which is also 96%. Clinical sensitivity is the measure of the HPV test's ability to correctly ...

Key study results showed that the Teal Wand was highly effective for sample collection with a 95% positive agreement for detection of high-risk HPV, significantly exceeding the clinical endpoint ...