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 ...

Transvaginal ultrasounds involve a slender probe that's inserted into the vagina. The procedure can be uncomfortable but probably no worse than a pap smear. People who are pregnant or have a condition ...

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Good news, ladies. Pelvic exams may be getting a little more comfortable and a whole lot more accurate thanks to a newly patented tool out of Stanford University. The ePelvis is a truncated mannequin, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Collage by Jesse Draxler. In 2016, Katie* had just started her first clinical rotation for the Yale School of ...

ST. LOUIS — Planned Parenthood of St. Louis, the last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri, confirmed it will no longer conduct pelvic exams 72 hours before performing the abortion procedure. Dr.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new batch of states is looking to legislate the level of informed consent required for medical students to perform pelvic exams on unconscious patients for educational purposes.

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 ...

Physician responses to patient expectations can affect physician incomes and may help explain lower incomes for many women, racialized, and immigrant physicians, found a new study published in the ...