Draft recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) say there is insufficient evidence to assess the balance of benefits and harms for the use of pelvic examinations to detect ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — No more dreaded pelvic exam? New guidelines say most healthy women can skip the yearly ritual. Routine pelvic exams don’t benefit women who have no symptoms of disease and who aren’t ...

Every year millions of women trek to their gynecologist or other healthcare provider and reluctantly climb into the stirrups. Though no one particularly likes a pelvic exam, most women put up with the ...

On Monday, the federal government issued new recommendations that require hospitals to get consent before conducting intimate exams on patients, especially those under anesthesia. The Scripps News ...

Pelvic exams play a pivotal role in medical education, often representing the first time medical students touch real humans in a professional manner. In her new book “Feeling Medicine,” published by ...

A new state law aimed at protecting patients from unwanted pelvic exams, sparked by reports of women being subjected to exams while they were under anesthesia, has created uncertainty for physicians ...

The American College of Physicians (ACP) has issued new clinical guidelines recommending against screening pelvic examination in asymptomatic, nonpregnant, adult women. The college describes the ...