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 ...

If you feel pretty damn proud of yourself for scheduling a Pap smear or pelvic exam, we don’t blame you. This kind of preventive care is incredibly important but also easy to put off or cut from your ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Routine pelvic examination has not been shown to benefit asymptomatic, average risk, non-pregnant women,” Linda ...

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 ...

The annual pelvic exam has been routinely performed on American women for decades. Controversy over the effectiveness vs. the “embarrassment factor” has recently taken center stage. Dr. Kirtly Jones ...

As a diagnostic and screening tool, the pelvic exam is vital. What makes all of this even worse: No more pelvic exams and infrequent paps mean women won’t see their gynecologist as regularly, and they ...

As a registered nurse with more than 16 years experience working with women in underserved communities, I’ve been utterly disheartened over the past 24 hours. A pelvic exam is what most lay people ...

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 ...

The annual pelvic exam is uncomfortable, invasive — and might not be necessary for healthy women. Or is it? There isn't a clear answer. An influential government task force determined Tuesday there ...

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease can begin with mild symptoms but may cause infertility if untreated. Doctors explain warning ...

The initial goal in the approach to evaluation of an adolescent with abnormal bleeding is to determine hemodynamic stability, locate the origin of bleeding, identify any organic causes and classify ...

Endometrial cancer, also known as uterine cancer, is the most common cancer of the female reproductive system. It begins in the lining of the uterus, called the endometrium. While it usually affects ...