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Teal Health secured an additional $10 million in seed funding, led by Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective and Forerunner Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on consumer innovation.
Teal Health/AFP via Getty Images. And when it comes to effectiveness, the numbers are solid, according to Egan. She said a “clinical trial … found that Teal Wand’s clinical sensitivity is 96 ...
Teal Health CEO Kara Egan with the company's DIY cervical cancer screening wand. Hilary Brueck, Business Insider A new DIY home swab kit for cervical cancer aims to make Pap smears more comfortable.
Women’s health company Teal Health has received $10 million in funding to launch the first at-home cervical cancer screening kit, the Teal WandTM, according to a press release.
This photo provided by Teal Health in May 2025 shows the company’s Teal Wand self-collection kit for at-home cervical cancer screening. (Nicole Morrison/Teal Health via AP) The doctor is in ...
SELF-CERV study validates the Teal Wand at-home cervical cancer screening as a preferred and viable alternative to in-person screening. Key clinical findings from the Teal Health SELF-CERV study ...
Teal Health The tennis star has aligned herself with Teal Health, a women’s health startup founded by Kara Egan (CEO) and Dr. Avnesh Thakor in 2020. According to the company website, ...
Good morning! Trump's attorney general nominee went before the Senate, Meta loses a lawyer over its masculinity era, and an at-home test for cervical cancer gets closer to market. Teal Health will ...
The Teal Wand self-collection device from Teal Health is used for at-home cervical cancer screening. (Nicole Morrison / Teal Health via AP) What are the benefits of at-home tests?
Teal Health received FDA approval for the first-ever at-home cervical cancer test, which seeks to give patients an alternative to the in-office pap smear. The test is already covered by four major ...