The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued a final recommendation statement on pelvic examinations to screen for gynecologic conditions in nonpregnant asymptomatic women in primary care ...

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 ...

The Well Woman Exam is the time to meet with your healthcare provider who will screen you for possible reproductive health problems and discuss your concerns. It is important that you have the exams ...

No Evidence for Benefits of Routine Pelvic Exam? Problems Detected on a Routine Pelvic Exam The Implications of Eliminating Routine Pelvic Exams References Problems Detected on a Routine Pelvic Exam ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The speculum — the medical device used during pelvic exams — hasn't changed much in 170 years. (Getty Images; illustration: ...

There are many common practices in medicine that are completely useless. For example, it was once common for patients to get a chest X-ray as part of their yearly physical. Someone finally questioned ...

Editor’s Note: Dr. Megan L. Ranney is an emergency physician and dean of Yale School of Public Health. Dr. Monique Rainford is an obstetrician and gynecologist, and assistant professor of Clinical ...

Janine, a nurse in Arizona, checked into the hospital for stomach surgery in 2017. Before the procedure, she told her physician that she did not want medical students to be directly involved. But ...

​For many patients, lack of insurance, limited access to providers, and other logistical hurdles stand in the way of getting regular cervical cancer screenings.